Word: marianism
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...Japanese have already won plaudits for the design and manufacturing quality of their machines. Says Marian Murphy, a vice president of ComputerLand, the largest retail computer chain, which has 210 stores in the U.S.: "Their hardware is as good as the American hardware." Experts are particularly impressed by the small handheld and portable computers that Japanese firms are producing...
...their continuance. He declared that the power to name the country's economic and industrial managers would remain in the hands of the party, thus assuring the threatened bureaucrats of their continuing influence. Hard-liners must have also been gratified by the expulsion of two leading reformists, Marian Arendt and Jan Malanowski, from the Central Committee...
Perhaps only a tribute to Singer Marian Anderson, 79, could have brought together those operatic rivals Shirley Verrett, 50, and Grace Bumbry, 45, for a performance on the same stage. The first black person to sing with the Metropolitan Opera, Anderson has been inspiration and mentor to the two younger singers. Both, in fact, are Marian Anderson Scholarship winners. And so Verrett and Bumbry, who have occasionally flung verbal darts at each other, put aside their simmering feud long enough to participate in a rousing 80th-birthday tribute to Anderson last week at New York's Carnegie Hall. Since...
...letter to Jaruzelski. "The introduction of martial law," they declared, "was aimed at depriving society of its voice and subjugating the nation to military dictatorship. History proves, however, that the Polish nation will not submit to such a fate." Originally signed by eight people, including Violinist Wanda Wilkomirska, Writer Marian Brandys and Historian Stefan Kieniewicz, the document was being circulated in Warsaw to gain additional support...
...additional $500 million in debt service charges before the end of the year. The Warsaw government scrambled to raise foreign exchange to make the interest payment, but by early December it was able to assemble only $150 million. Immediately after martial law was declared, Marian Minkiewicz, president of Bank Handlowy, the nation's foreign trade bank, sent wires to 23 major commercial creditors pleading for a short-term loan to keep Poland from toppling into technical default...