Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain's long economic malaise? Hardly. As a new Bank of England study points out, the economy is still deeply mired in stagflation. Industrial production is running 7% below its 1973 peak and is expected to grow only 2½% by the end of 1978. Unemployment has reached a postwar high of 1.6 million and is still expanding, and even an inflation rate of 12% would be ruinous over the long term. If market prices were adjusted for the withering effects of inflation since the 1972 apex, the FT index would have...
...Spring and Berg's Wozzeck. He was constantly concerned with helping young musicians. That was why, at age 80, he helped to found the American Symphony Orchestra in New York in 1962. He had demanded and received huge salaries in Philadelphia ($110,000 a year at his peak), plus the income from radio and recordings, at a time of low income taxes. Stokowski took no pay from the American Symphony, and even backed it with...
...circulation to the raunchier Penthouse and the downright sickening Hustler, and weighted down by a crazy-quilt diversification pattern (a movie company, a limousine service, hotels, books, a modeling agency), Playboy Enterprises earned only $2 million on sales of $198 million in fiscal 1976, far below its 1973 earnings peak of $11.2 million. A year ago, Hefner hired Daniels, 48, a vice president of the Knight-Ridder chain. Daniels is a onetime newspaperman (city editor, the Miami Herald) and grandson of the late North Carolina publisher Josephus Daniels, who was Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson. He was reluctant...
...Rhapsody, Op. 119 No. 4 (Pianist Van Cliburn, RCA). The Handel Variations are often thought of as a piece that only a pianist, or piano buff, could love. In one of his most appealing albums in years, Van Cliburn puts the lie to that. Leaping from one craggy Brahmsian peak to another as effortlessly as though playing Debussy's Clair de lune, Cliburn gives the work a warm romantic allure yet never loses hold of its classic-baroque underpinnings. What ingenuity and surprise Cliburn finds in this music! What stunning sound-almost orchestral in its power and variety...
Although physical and medical conditions at Kalaupapa improved steadily as the patient population reached its peak of 1,180 in 1890, most patients remained contagious and suffered the progressively crippling and deforming effects of the disease. Many appeared to lose their noses because the bone is absorbed into adjacent tissues. The same thing happened to the finger bones; the fingers do not become gangrenous and drop off, as many scare stories have it, but the bones are gradually broken down and absorbed until the hand is left with only short stumps where fingers and thumb should be. Foot drop-paralysis...