Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...first national census was taken, the population of the U.S. has grown from about 4 million in 1790 to nearly 247 million today. Last week the U.S. Census Bureau predicted the eventual end of that era of uninterrupted increase. In 50 years, the bureau forecast, America's population could peak at 302 million and then begin a slow decline before stabilizing at 292 million...
...does lend perspective, especially to a son of Connemara. "There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys. I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. But today I'm quite at home wandering those valleys and occasionally climbing a peak." So does he regret anything? "No." An actor's delicious pause. "Well, sure. I'm not a French singer...