Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have hardened in the past two years. ''So far the Europeans have reacted pretty staunchly,'' said one senior U.S. specialist. Added a Defense Department official: ''With the scars of the neutron bomb on our back and theirs, they're determined not to let it happen again...
...McNeese State University (enrollment: 5,500) in Lake Charles, La., the search for a new president ended with the choice of Home-Town Favorite Jack Doland, 51, the university's athletic director and football coach. Said Doland, in a meeting with a search committee: ''Let no one belittle coaching experience in preparation for a position as president...
Compared with Webern, his fellow revolutionaries Schoenberg and Berg were vestigial romantics. They used Schoenberg's twelve-tone system to rework the old, large-scale forms of Wagner and Brahms. Webern used it to abolish those forms, along with the entire principle of elaboration and climax. He let his three-or four-note motives suggest their own, rather static structural implications through intricate counterpoint and variation-not development. ''Once stated,'' he said, ''the theme expresses all it has to say.'' By relating everything else to that theme, he attempted to achieve...
...have let the workers into the executive washroom, but we have still kept the keys...
...boardroom was part of a trade in which the U.A.W. chiefs let Chrysler off with an easier three-year wage pact than those recently signed with General Motors and Ford. The company will save about $200 million by deferring payments into its pension plan next year and a further $203 million over the next two years by delaying some wage raises and benefit improvements. By the end of the three years, however, Chrysler workers will be earning the same as GM and Ford employees, and the industry's hourly labor costs-wages, fringe benefits and pensions-will have jumped...