Word: plum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sooner had the Royal Ballet's prima ballerina Antoinette Sibley, 34, been given the plum of her career-a three-act version of Manon created especially for her by Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan-than she fell sick. A victim of frequent illness during her 18-year career, including tuberculosis and glandular fever, Sibley could not even start rehearsals last year because of an inflamed hip. Medication put her back on pointe, but she promptly irritated a nerve in her leg. Offstage again, she got the flu. When she finally opened in Manon last March in London, her personal triumph seemed...
...Though a plum assignment for journalists, traveling with Kissinger is also a grind. State Department Correspondent John Mulliken, who has gone on three major journeys with the Secretary of State since September and contributed to this week's cover story, notes that a day of shuttle diplomacy often starts at 4 a.m. That is the hour that baggage must be ready for X-ray examination by the Secret Service. On board the plane, Kissinger routinely briefs correspondents but rarely allows himself to be quoted directly. "Of course," says Mulliken, "no one is fooled by the titles that are used...
Aramco now operates under the shadow of nationalization. The company is indeed a plum - the world's biggest oil producer sitting atop the world's largest reserves. Aramco's average well yields 12,000 bbl. per day, as compared with the average U.S. well's 18 bbl. Its refinery and port complex at Ras Tanura on the Persian Gulf can turn out more product (600,000 bbl. per day), store more oil and load more supertankers than any other facility on the globe...
...Menk has managed to reduce the firm's payroll by 8% and retire 8,000 obsolete cars. But total labor costs have gone up 48%, and Burlington Northern has lacked the capital to buy enough new equipment to handle increased traffic. Last year the company's own Plum Creek Lumber Co., in Montana, had to ship some of its output by truck because there were not enough B.N. freight cars around...
Interstate Epidemic. CDC investigators are able to close the books on some cases with little trouble. They had few problems, for example, figuring out why a batch of plum wine that had fermented in an old bathtub caused lead poisoning in only one of several people who helped concoct the stuff. Under questioning, the man sheepishly revealed that he had consumed 50 gallons...