Word: lilley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...female soloists are not up to the men. Still, contralto Patricia Leonard is an admirable Fairy Queen, stern on the outside but soft within. When speaking she sometimes amusingly summons up the inflections of the late Dame Edith Evans. Barbara Lilley's Iolanthe and Jane Metcalfe's Phyllis are acceptable but not outstanding. Metcalfe needs to work still on her diction when singing. And why doesn't Lilley use the prescribed veil in her encounter with the Lord Chancellor, who is supposed not to recognize...
Late in the week President Ford's Council on Wage and Price Stability issued a 14-page report arguing that the steel increases were not justified by market demand. The rises, said COWPS Acting Director William Lilley III, were moves by steel men to "protect themselves against possible future wage and price controls." Some executives did not altogether deny that they were jumping the inaugural gun. Said U.S. Steel Chairman Edgar Speer: "The political situation is always a consideration. Let's not kid ourselves." Why, then, had Speer told stockholders three weeks ago that there would...
...price controls, even on a stand-by basis. Said the President-elect: "I believe that the constant threat of wage-price controls is sometimes a stimulation for unwarranted increases in wages and prices, and I want to remove that threat completely from business and labor." Yet, as COWPS Head Lilley warned the steel men, a flurry of price rises could lead to the controls "that business seeks to avoid...
...Power. The increase seemed to catch Washington off guard. President Ford ordered an investigation by his Council on Wage and Price Stability. Acting Director William Lilley III asked National for production, cost and profit-and-sales data and said the market appears to be no stronger than last summer. COWPS, however, has no power to do anything except complain-and perhaps pass the buck to President-elect Jimmy Carter, who is committed to trying to get industry and labor to follow voluntary wage-price guidelines...
...scientists include Whipple; Arthur E. Lilley, professor of Astronomy; and Harrison E. Radford, associate of the Harvard College Observatory...