Word: meeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jones' surprise announcement came one day before the Celtics meet the New York Knicks in the third game of their playoff series. Boston leads, 2-0, and can wrap the series up tonight (Ch. 56, 7:30 p.m.) with a victory at Madison Square Garden...
...enough. In a city where the symphony is struggling to keep its head above water, the odds against a smaller group were evidently just too long. Although the ensemble plays more than 100 concerts a year and tours Europe annually, it needs help to meet the annual tab of about $500,000 for keeping its eleven musicians playing...
...happy: after signing a 60-day cease-fire last month, Sandinista and contra leaders met in Managua last week to negotiate details of the final accord. The talks bogged down on both technical and substantive issues, but the two sides predicted that progress would be made when they meet again this week. Nonetheless, Pantasma seems more weighed down by its bloody past than it is buoyed by any belief that the battles may finally be over. "The people have no confidence in either the government or the contras. They have been oppressed by both," says Padre Victor Mendoza, the town...
...took the practiced ear of Richard Nixon to tell us that. Give him his due. He's got a feel for the pols, and he can sum them up with a brutal line or two. On Meet the Press a few weeks ago, Anchor Tom Brokaw asked if Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, the leading Democratic presidential contender, was just "too dull to be an effective nominee." Nixon was ready, dark flash from the eyes. "Let me answer that question this way. I've often said that the best politics is poetry rather than prose. Jesse Jackson is a poet. Cuomo...
...produce much greater thrust. The CF6 turbofan (current cost: $6 million each) has broken the hold Pratt & Whitney had with its JT9D on the giant Boeing 747. GE has boosted production of its most powerful version, the CF6-80C2, from 110 engines in 1987 to 260 this year to meet a backlog of nearly 500 orders...