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...short way up Huntington Avenue, the Boston Symphony is also starting to feel the pinch, although in a much smaller way. That orchestra still mangoes to meet its $51/2 million budget, but not without added fundraising and dipping into unreserved capital funds. Season ticket sales have taken a slight fall, because, in the words of an orchestra spokesman, "When the economy is bad, some people hold off renewing." Nonethe less, BSO concerts, normally close to selling out, and radio and television revenue helps take up the slack...
...pinch is already affecting commerce and industry across wide segments of the East and Midwest. Last week the Tennessee Valley Authority disclosed that its normal 60-day stockpile of coal is down to a ten-to twelve-day supply overall, and to four days' worth at some of its thermal power plants. When the town of Braintree, Mass., sought bids recently for oil to run its generating plant for another year, none were submitted. Though there is plenty of natural gas available in the Southwest, the fuel has become so scarce on the East Coast that the Elizabethtown...
...their holdings in pension funds, profit-sharing funds, variable annuities and endowment trusts. Even people who do not have such interests have been damaged. The stock drop has affected the psychological climate ?and thus the spending plans?of all kinds of businesses. Moreover, as stockholders have felt the pinch, the decline has brought hard times to enterprises as varied as restaurants, nightclubs, gambling casinos, summer-rental brokerages, yacht builders, jewelers, liquor stores and fur shops...
...Double Pinch...
They find their old passion still alive, but time has altered their outlooks. Latha, earthy and somewhat affronted by the sudden inclusion of God in her plans, insists on making love before marriage; Every, the onetime rapist, now understandably wants to clear things with the Almighty. Using a pinch of horse sense and an ecclesiastical sophistry, they manage to work things...