Word: petering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle of a North Carolina forest stands a spanking new white brick building with lots of sliding glass doors and a glass-domed roof, as if the architect intended to build either a hothouse or a window on the world and simply could not decide which. When Peter Riesenberg, professor of history from Washington University and a fellow-in-residence, first saw the National Humanities Center, he cried, "I've lucked into a monastery!" Surveying his $2.5 million home away from home, Martin Krieger, on leave from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Public Affairs, murmured, "After...
...think that anyone expects this to be an easy race for Yale," Harvard coach Peter Raymond said last night. Seeing that its blow-them-away approach was unsuccessful with Yale, Harvard intends to resort to cunning and guile this week. The Crimson hopes to stay with Yale at a lower cadence, saving some of its great power for a final all-out sprint...
Nowhere in the Western world is the tension between decentralized economic pursuits and the advantages of a strong federal government as evident as in Canada. Oil-rich Alberta, led by Conservative premier Peter Lougheed, is in the midst of a boom. The other Western provinces feel alienated by the distant Ottawa government. The Maritime provinces are locked into a vicious economic cycle, with unemployment as high as 20 per cent in some areas, and despite federal investment incentives, practically separatist government clamors for "sovereignty association," a euphemism for secession. If Quebec were to secede, the Maritimes would...
...England Conservatory Scholarship Chamber Quartet--works of Mozart, Kodaly, and Schubert; Sachiko Mori, violin; Peter Slowik, viola; Koji Yanagulda, cello; and Carol Rankin, plano; Jordan Hall...
Works of Purcell, Saint--Saens, Hindemith, Jacobi, and Arban--Norman Birge, trumpet; David Sogg, bassoon; and Peter Lurye, plano; Cabot Living Room., South House...