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Thomson's creative reputation today rests primarily on his operas -- notably the groundbreaking 1928 Four Saints in Three Acts, to a libretto by Gertrude Stein, and The Mother of Us All (1947) -- as well as on the 1928 Symphony on a Hymn Tune and the film score The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936). But the work that has long intrigued Thomson's admirers is his last opera, Lord Byron, which premiered at the Juilliard School...
...students going into primary-care medicine, if they agree to practice for a while in doctor-short rural areas. Bailey likens the current system to "training all the horses in the world to run a mile and a quarter and wondering why we can't find one to plow...
...same time, the dollar economy is giving rise to a privileged class increasingly independent of the government. Cuba's newest companies are state enterprises with quasi-private stockholders: foreign partners can repatriate their profits, but Cuban stockholders must plow any gain back into the company or it goes to the state. Harvard University professor and Cuba expert Jorge Dominguez notes, however, that it is just a short step to total privatization. Many older Cubans see the yummies as mere opportunists in this process. "The yummies want to be the new political and economic power," says a Havana businessman who discovered...
...same person you see driving a plow in the winter time is now doing tree work, raking leaves or fixing pot holes," said Robert Keating, a supervisor at the Department of Public Works...
During winters with heavy snowfall, Frasier said his men are on call 24 hours a day to plow sand, or salt...