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...ease. Almost singlehanded she created the revival of bel canto. It was because of her voice and presence that Norma and I Puritani are now popular after decades of neglect. For this one accomplishment, hordes of opera lovers, as well as Sopranos Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe and Sills herself, owe Callas a lasting debt. And she acted these roles with a devouring intensity that might do justice to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...taxes that the company has already paid on its profits. A highly oversimplified example of the basic idea: a person who owned 1% of the shares in a company that paid $100,000 in taxes on its profits would subtract $1,000 from the tax that he otherwise would owe on his dividends. Yet there are many questions, and how this change would work out in practice is most unclear...
...much greater role in American business than ever before, certain things never change. Big business might well be a game, but it is not played with Monopoly money, and at the end of the year people still have to look at the bottom line and see how much they owe the kitty. It simply does not seem realistic to claim, as Maccoby does, that...
...danger of sinking. In the House he can count on the support of Speaker Tip O'Neill. He has no such ally in the upper chamber. Not only is Byrd more aloof and elusive than O'Neill, but the Senate barons who control the important committees owe nothing to Carter, and in some cases are hostile. Where the President needs the most strength, he is the weakest. John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is 77 and too exhausted to lead the forces for the Panama Canal Treaty, which would relinquish control of the waterway...
...Coastwatchers of the Solomons, the author traveled 40,000 miles (including a rugged three-day bivouac on Guadalcanal) to assemble this story of the men and women who flashed reports of Japanese ship and plane movements and rescued more than 100 downed pilots. A number of foundering sailors also owe their lives to the coastwatchers. One was a 26-year-old lieutenant (j.g.) named John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose torpedo boat had been karate-chopped by the hull of a Japanese destroyer...