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When it finally flies, Japan's FSX fighter jet (top speed: 1,300 m.p.h.) will represent technology at its peak. But the aircraft may represent an even loftier accomplishment in diplomacy, since it has become a centerpiece in the friendly but fierce economic rivalry between the U.S. and Japan. For more than four years, the two governments have been negotiating a joint effort to develop a new generation of fighter jet that would patrol the island nation's shipping lanes and support its defense forces in the 1990s. When a tentative deal was first reached last November, the project drew...
Without a doubt, much of the Crimson's dominance can be traced to a program built by and maintained at peak efficiency by Coach Harry Parker, who has led the heavies to 13 undefeated seasons in 27 years as Harvard's coach...
MBTA Project Manager Peter C. Calcaterra said in an interview last week that an additional subway line would serve two purposes, It would relieve congestion at peak hours at the four transfer points in Boston, and it would extend service to people in other parts of Cambridge, Boston and the suburbs...
That lack of movement has left Greenspan little room to waver in the battle to keep inflation from getting out of hand. U.S. factories are running at near peak capacity, and unemployment has been at a 14-year low. The rising costs of production have prompted some experts to fear that an inflationary wage-price spiral could be ready to begin...
Clearly, more is riding on this show than a mere $8 million. For Jerome Robbins' Broadway is a sacred remnant of the musical at its mid-century peak -- a fusion of wit, precision, melody and high spirits -- that an aging generation of theater lovers miss terribly and want back. "We are in an era of high school production numbers and arias set to a backbeat," says Jule Styne, who wrote songs for five Robbins musicals. "A lot of people will see this show and realize what they've missed." Co-producer Emanuel Azenberg must hope so too. "Shows that have...