Word: karle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capita income: $12,400) and gifted nation that has so often been a victim of its own excesses is now gripped by a uniquely Teutonic mood of Angst, an attitude that in some respects is not "far removed from a crisis of confidence," in the words of Karl Otto Pohl, president of West Germany's central bank. And nowhere are the effects of that mood more evident than in the concerned features of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...some enervating procedural wrangles lead to a compromise cut of $100,000, which really means property values and profligate pedagogy pretty much as usual in Weston. "It's a drop in the bucket," says Board of Finance Member Karl Nelson. "The board of ed can cover that cut just out of its contingency funds, and nothing will change." Nor will it, apparently, until the townspeople either run out of tax money or decide to take a long, hard look at their school system...
...unselfconscious ease about it that helped to eliminate any difficulties the audience might have had with the style, dry by conventional standards but supple and expressive. Especially impressive was the Nero of Susan Larson, taking a part originally written for a male soprano; the Arnalta of Tenor Karl Dan Sorensen, playing a nursemaid in another of the opera's travesty roles; and the Ottone of Countertenor Jeffrey Gall. Kerry McCarthy made a vocally handsome, icily regal Poppea. Pearlman translated Giovanni Francesco Busenello's masterly libretto into idiomatic, singable English...
Other scholars who will be coming to Harvard next year include Karl E. Borreson, member of the Norwegian Research Council on Theology. Jorun J. Buckley, an expert on the Gnosticism. JoAnn Cariton, professor of religion at Occidential College: and Cheryl T. Gilkes, professor of sociology at Northeastern University...
...remarkable pitching record, critics protest, has been aided by some slippery business. A team does not suddenly reduce its ERA from 4.74 in 1979 to a league-leading 3.46 last year, it is argued, without putting a little something extra on the ball. Claims Minnesota First Base Coach Karl Kuehl: "They're getting it off their foreheads and the umpires don't have the guts to do anything about it." One baseball insider asserts that Kuehl's charge is only half true. "Matt Keough keeps it in his glove. Mike Norris keeps it in his crotch. Steve...