Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sistance, a robust rendering of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, followed by a lavish, streamlined Swan Lake featuring nothing less than the reigning tandem of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, who had volunteered their services and spent one week of intensive rehearsals mastering the myriad refinements of Cranko's interpretation. But the creation that stirred the most frenetic response from the crowd was the première of a handsomely preened and plumed production of Stravinsky's Fire Bird, grounded in the Fokine tradition but soaring to new heights on the wings of Prima Ballerina Marcia Hayd...
Though such a sprawling company is beyond the power of any one man to change it substantially, Kappel has made his mark on A.T.&T. Perhaps his signal contribution has been to increase earnings nicely by pushing through local rate increases and introducing myriad new efficiencies. Long-distance operators are now taught by programmed-instruction textbooks, which are much cheaper than human teachers; speed-reading courses have cut the average time that information operators need to look up a number from 37.6 seconds to 33.3 seconds, at an annual saving of $8,000,000. During Kappel's eight years...
...though the Bureau performs these several functions, the core of its operation is counseling. Upwards of six hundred students appear yearly--about half on their own initiative and half referred by other advisors--to seek counsel on a myriad of academic and more intimate emotional problems. The Bureau sets no rigid limits on what topics it will discuss, since a student's academic success often depends as much on his personal relations with family or girl friend as in his intrinsic ability or interest in studying...
...nation's publishing houses. If these two threatened suppressions have been a test for a new revenue-raising scheme that might save Massachusetts yet from a higher income tax on the lottery, the test has succeeded. In the future, the Commission should be able to extract from myriad publishers and authors handsome fees for declaring their books obscene, indecent, and impure...
...Billy Graham wound up his crusade at Harvard last night in the fullest sense of the word. Speaking to about 250 in Rindge Tech Auditorium and to about 250 in Burr B later on, Graham used a myriad of tones to induce his audience into a commitment for Christ...