Word: parlous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major discouragement for would-be water rats is the parlous shortage of dock space. There's a three-to four-year waiting list at Miami's city-maintained Dinner Key Marina. Southern California's spectacularly beautiful Long Beach Marina has been booked solidly since the day it opened in 1956. Many private marina owners will not accept live-aboards because of their demands on dockside services. As a result of berth control, there is a whole subsubculture of hide-aboards, who tie up what looks like a weekend cruiser and then surreptitiously move in, lock, schlock...
...bequest to Yale forms the most systematic collection of British art, mainly 18th and early 19th century, in existence outside London's Tate Gallery. Mellon has thus in a few years given away buildings and works of art worth rather more than $200 million. Even granted the parlous state of the dollar, no other living American has committed himself to art patronage on this scale. (Paul Getty endowed his mock-Pompeian Getty Museum above Malibu, Calif., to the tune of a staggering $700 million, but Getty died in 1976, and very little of the money has been spent...
...that goal was something that Egypt?and Sadat?could not endure. His country was an economic cripple, with debts of $13 billon. It is now dependent on subsidies amounting to $5.4 billion from the U.S., Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil states merely to keep going. Egypt's parlous economic situation is certainly a political hazard for Sadat. Seventy-nine people died during two days of food riots last January in Cairo and Alexandria. The violence ended only when Sadat reluctantly rolled back price increases on wheat, oil and other staples...
Among other virtues, it requires no chorus and can be performed by a chamber orchestra as small as 13 players. Since the economics of opera are parlous, that alone should ensure the work a long life...
That was not quite accurate. The revelation of Lance's parlous personal finances makes him an unconvincing spokesman for Carter's philosophy of tightfisted national spending and a balanced budget. Up to now, Lance has been the most prominent defender of the Administration's economic policies, overshadowing talented but far less flamboyant figures like Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Charles Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Both of these men may now become much more visible...