Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chairman Carl Icahn, 50, the Manhattan-based corporate raider currently involved in an $8 billion takeover bid for Pittsburgh-based USX. The Washington Post last week quoted unnamed sources to the effect that Icahn and Boesky, who in 1985 owned more than 5% of Gulf & Western's stock, had collaborated to run up the price of those shares by fueling rumors that the company would be a takeover target. The two then sold their shares back to Gulf & Western for a profit. That ploy would have amounted to illegal stock manipulation. In a memorandum to his TWA staff, Icahn denounced...
Talbott's team at the University of Pittsburgh found that of 51 Allegheny County, Pa., female heart-attack victims over 50, twelve had never given birth. In contrast, only two of 47 healthy women over 50 and from the same neighborhood were not biological mothers. In women 50 or younger, childlessness appeared to be unrelated to the risk of sudden death...
...circumnavigates the globe in just a few months, although travelers and migrating birds probably help it along. And perhaps because of commercial jets, flu has been spreading more rapidly in recent years, giving health officials even less time to prepare new vaccines. For all these reasons, says University of Pittsburgh Epidemiologist Frederick Ruben, "the only thing that's predictable about influenza is that it's unpredictable...
ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH: Symphony No. 1; Celebration; Prologue and Variations. Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Nelson. (New World). JOHN HARBISON: Ulysses' Bow; Samuel Chapter. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn; Soprano Susan Larson, with Collage conducted by Harbison. (Nonesuch). There is nothing far-out about either Zwilich, the 1983 Pulitzer prizewinner, or Harbison, currently composer-in-residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Both are solid craftsmen whose music is informed by an eloquent melodic voice, and each is especially adept at writing for the symphony orchestra. Zwilich's First Symphony is a big, bold, brassy work, propelled...
...Dryden Orchestra (Arabesque). KURT WEILL: Stratas Sings Weill. Soprano Teresa Stratas, with Gerard Schwarz conducting the Y Chamber Symphony (Nonesuch). Americans seem to have show music in their blood, even when they were immigrants like Weill (Germany) and Herbert (Ireland). Herbert, a cello virtuoso and conductor who directed the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904, wanted to be taken seriously -- as did, similarly, Sir Arthur Sullivan -- but it was his 40-odd operettas (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta) that won him lasting fame. Hunsberger leads crisp, snappy performances of several rousing marches and show tunes. The disk also includes selections...