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This failure is a pity for everyone involved, and for the American theater. As the cost of Broadway production soars and the number of new shows per season plummets, each arrival becomes precious -- especially the handful of big musicals, the Great White Way's economic mainstay and artistic signature. The producers of Nick & Nora blamed Broadway economics for their decision to cancel out-of-town tryouts. Instead the show played a near record nine weeks of in-town previews at full prices, prompting New York City's consumer- protection department to promulgate new rules for theater advertising. During that time...
...Saudi Arabia, which wields influence as the financial mainstay of many smaller Arab states including Syria, is in favor of moving rapidly to end Israel's isolation, the sources said. Morocco is also in favor of regional discussions...
...worldwide search for adoptable children is driven by classic causes: faltering domestic supply and rising demand. The number of babies available for adoption in the U.S. and other industrialized countries has declined as birthrates have shrunk and legal abortion has expanded. In addition, the taboo against unmarried motherhood -- that mainstay of Victorian novels -- has virtually disappeared, removing another source of homeless infants. In the U.S., 65% of the white babies born to single mothers were given up for adoption in 1966, but 20 years later that figure was down to 5%. National statistics are not kept, but some experts place...
Meanwhile, Ronald Coase, whose theories have become a mainstay of economic thinking, became the thirteenth professor from the University of Chicago to win the honor...
...defense, which returns seven starters from last year's unit, including all four members of the secondary, was supposed to be the Crimson's mainstay. After last week's scrimmage against Brown, however, it is the defense that has something to prove...