Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gardens and glistening pools. Why? In part because the owners, the Western International hotel chain, wanted to build something different in Mexico City. Another reason, according to Jose Brockman, president of Western International Hotels de Mexico, "a high-rise hotel would have cost three times as much as a low one and taken twice as long to build. We wanted the Camino Real ready in time for the Olympics, so it had to be low...
...candidates and their teams of economic advisers, today's U.S. economy poses a complex challenge: how to combine prosperity with price stability. Many economists insist that an unwelcome degree of inflation is almost inevitable in times of minuscule unemployment. Humphrey says that he is "determined" to keep unemployment low and prices stable, partly through "timely fiscal action" and better labor productivity. Nixon also insists that the goal can be reached, but he places more reliance on getting there by shrinking the federal deficit...
...economy where unemployment is running at 3.5% of the labor force (lowest since 1953) and wages are rising, higher costs for services are predictable. With plenty of work available, the unskilled are leaving low-paying jobs. The only recourse for the bosses is to offer more money without receiving higher productivity...
...energy, esteem or income. His salary for Romeo and Juliet was $50,000 plus a hefty percentage, and he will make even more from his new projects, notably a movie of Brecht's Galileo, starring Rod Steiger. At his bachelor villa near Rome, Zeffirelli remains the low-pressure gran signore, entertaining ten or twelve friends for lunch, inhaling gusts of Winston smoke from fingertip-held cigarettes. His braggadocio extends even to his genealogy. "One day my father showed up with an armful of documents," he recalls. "He finally had documented proof of my origins. I told myself that...
...Oedipus. For one thing, he has a bad habit of punctuating his lines with portentous pauses that have no connection with either sense or cadence. A more serious failure is his foothills approach to the part-he neither climbs high enough at the beginning nor falls low enough at the end. Plummer as King of Thebes is arrogant rather than hubristic; his fate seems more like a matter of just deserts than a result of the awesome machinations of Apollo...