Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heated ego in an exchange with Sir Rudolf Bing, who had prevented her appearance at the Metropolitan Opera. Bing: "Not every great singer can sing at the Met." Bubbles: "Not every great singer wants to." Nor can every great singer walk away from $7.5 million worth of bookings in order to retire, then take over a troubled opera company and make it lively and profitable. Sills concludes with an odd admission: "Unemployment still scares the daylights out of me." It is a state she is never likely to experience...
...both sides happy. The computerized Personics machines, which will be introduced in five California record stores this summer, will enable the consumer to make a customized cassette tape by choosing from an initial inventory of 1,000 songs. After consulting a catalog of available selections, the customer gives the order to a clerk, who transfers the music from a master optical disk to a blank cassette, and may use a computer to print a custom label for the tape. The high-speed equipment can record 40 minutes of music in less than five minutes. The cost: 50 cents...
...Jesuits argued the little used church needs $1 million worth of structural repairs they cannot afford. The Jesuits want to move into the church offices and quarters now in other buildings the order wants to sell to residential developers...
...Boston Jesuit order says it may challenge the constitutionality of a city panel's vote to declare a 126-year-old church a landmark, a move which blocked the religious order from renovating the building...
...Landmarks Commission, after a six-month campaign by historians and a preservation group, granted landmark status to the interior of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, blocking the Jesuits' plans to convert the church to offices and sleeping quarters as part of a consolidation of the order's headquarters...