Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter how the strike is eventually resolved, it will make coal more expensive. The settlement that the miners rejected two weeks ago would have added $3.17 a ton to coal's price (currently around $21). According to the Manhattan-based Edison Electric Institute, that would translate into a 15% increase in utility fuel costs, and a 5% increase in the average consumer's electricity bill...
...late '70s, this plan is nearly Napoleonic in scope, and it does not lack for skeptics. The massive culture enclaves of the past two decades, symbolized by Manhattan's Lincoln Center, are causing financial trouble for the arts organizations they house. Denver may also learn about the perils of overbuilding. But last week there was no time for such pessimism. The first new structure of the center, the Boettcher Concert Hall, opened to raves from the public and from music and architecture critics. The three days of programs became the kind of celebration that happens when a city...
...permanent move to America is unlikely, however. Wenders says he plans to return when Hammett is finished, and Herzog, that most rug ged of rugged individualists, will make German films wherever he is. Fassbinder, much as he longs to live in Manhattan, cannot escape the destiny that has made him not only German, but a distinct kind of German, the Bavarian. "The new German directors are like airplanes always circling the airport but never landing," says the philosophical Kluge...
...bank re-elects directors next month. Mitchell pleaded the press of other business, but Finley told a different story to reporters attending the Stevens annual meeting (which was moved to Greenville, S.C., apparently to escape the attention of the television networks clustered within blocks of the Stevens Tower in Manhattan). Said an embittered Finley: "I was pressured into leaving by management and various members of the bank's board. I didn't want to stay where I was not wanted...
MARRIED. Joseph Alioto, 62, multimillionaire businessman and former mayor of San Francisco; and Kathleen Sullivan, 33, moderate voice as president of Boston's school committee who is expected to run for mayor in 1979; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan. Alioto divorced Angelina, his wife of 35 years, last August...