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...written, Tehillim (the name means psalms or praises in Hebrew) is in four movements and reflects its composer's interest in cantillation, or chanting of the Scriptures. The music has a strong Middle Eastern flavor with its crisp, jagged rhythms and exotic melodic turns, which compound and pile up on one another until the piece explodes in an irresistible shout of triumph. In Tehillim Reich has added an ecstatic element to his musical vocabulary, and his work has become more poignant and expressive than ever before. The maturing of minimal music sounds in every note of Tehillim...
...before the economy gets much help from new business investment, which is the prime creator of jobs and a major engine of growth. Companies have a lot of idle factories and equipment to put back to work before they can think seriously about any new spending. Moreover, the staggering pile of debts built up during the past few years of inflation, recession and no-growth will need to be decreased before much new borrowing can occur. In the past six years, American manufacturing and other nonfinancial corporations have doubled their total indebtedness to $1.2 trillion, a figure that exceeds...
Even though he had a lock on Senate approval, Shultz took no chances. He let himself be grilled in rehearsal by what the State Department calls its "murder board," a cluster of top aides headed by Under Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger. He studied a thick pile of loose-leaf briefing binders from the department's regional experts. He wrote his own 13-page opening statement for the hearings. A former dean of the University of Chicago business school and still a tenured professor at Stanford University, Shultz was not satisfied with his statement until he had reworked it nearly...
...Shultz crams to take over Haig's job, foreign policy problems pile...
...Boston pennant--now becoming increasingly likely--would be wonderful. But soon the flag would go on top of a big pile of sports laurels, deserved but not fully appreciated. A New York championship would quickly get engulfed by the news-and-excitement-mongering metropolis in which the Yanks play only a bit part...