Word: major
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After Australia, Pavarotti was ready for a string of major debuts: La Scala in 1965, San Francisco in 1967, the Metropolitan in 1968. Although his Met engagement, like most of the others, was in his lucky opera, La Bohème, he caught Hong Kong flu and had to withdraw halfway through the second performance. It took him three years to overcome that anticlimactic beginning at the house. But when he did, in a production of The Daughter of the Regiment with Sutherland, he set New York on its critical ear with a spectacular series of nine high...
...former city employee who contributed only $35 to his retirement plan when he was on the payroll has collected $280,000 in benefits since he finished working. Says Chester Pierce, Hamtramck's acting director of urban renewal: "Within the next 20 years, pensions will rival energy as the major problem facing the United States...
Both sides compromised on the major issue of increasing pensions to keep up with inflation. At first the union wanted pension payments tied to rises in the cost of living: the company strongly rejected that because of the potential high cost. In the end, the union accepted the company's counteroffer to make periodic increases to help protect pensioners against rising prices. During the next three years, workers under 62 who retire after 30 years on the job will get $800 a month to start. Then they will get two in creases in the first year and further boosts...
...robust (a "Tendersweet Clam Plate" goes for $4.75) as their food is plain. As one old saw puts it, "Howard Johnson's ice cream comes in 28 flavors and its food in one." In motor lodges the company has fallen behind the quality standards of such major rivals as Holiday Inns and Marriott. Though the company has had record sales and profits for four years running -1978's earnings were $33.6 million on revenues of $555 million-gasoline shortages have slowed the growth markedly this year...
Their problem is shared by untold numbers of Americans. According to Dr. Joseph Pursch, who has treated such notables as Betty Ford and Senator Herman Talmadge for addiction at the Long Beach Naval Regional Medical Center, overuse of tranquilizers ranks second only to alcoholism as the nation's major health problem. Says Subcommittee Chairman Edward Kennedy: "These drugs have produced a nightmare of dependence...