Word: perform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consulting firm with partner William Townsend, Greenspan devoted his energies to building the business. This was especially evident after Townsend died in 1958 and Greenspan acquired 99% of the stock. Today Townsend-Greenspan provides a wide variety of financial data and detailed forecasts about how the economy will perform. The cost to clients: between $15,000 and $200,000 a year...
...doctor during the Depression who was being fired because of his religion, the young McCrady was confused, especially about why the doctor was fired. But after long rehersals with the director, McCrady could act the part without really understanding it. A few months later his school was set to perform the Mikado. But McCrady sat that one out: "It sounded Japanese, and I couldn't sing and didn't want...
...time to Europe, although he keeps an apartment in New York City. Ramey enjoys the Continent's greater musical sophistication and adventurous repertoire. "Many singers make a career of doing the same operas over and over," he says. "But I am always looking for the unusual or the rarely performed works." The Paris Robert le Diable, the saga of a man who discovers he is a devil's son, was one such project. Another is Anton Rubinstein's obscure The Demon, whose title role was sung by the great Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin; Ramey hopes to perform the part someday...
...placed third in that event, which was much better than I could have done if I were called on to perform the day I went to Dedham...
...also have a stake in the effort to cooperate more effectively with other nations, for this is not a job that you can safely leave for others to perform. On the contrary, it needs the continuing participation of many people exactly like yourselves. We will certainly need able public servants and politicians and diplomats to help guide our relations with other countries and build the trust and mutual respect required to make cooperation possible. But we must have much more than this...