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...sure, but I'm told she still has her stuff, in spite of some years and some eye problems. Her recent work is primarily interpretive, owing to a decline in big bands, but she can interpret Lennon-McCartney as well as anyone, and an evening with TWGJB ought to prod her into a few standards. Somehow, no one should miss this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: music | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

...sure, but I'm told she still has her stuff, in spite of some years and some eye problems. Her recent work is primarily interpretive, owing to a decline in big bands, but she can interpret Lennon-McCartney as well as anyone, and an evening with TWGJB ought to prod her into a few standards. Somehow, no one should miss this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: music | 7/20/1973 | See Source »

STOCK MARKET: In an effort to prod reluctant investors, the Government relaxed its guidelines to allow companies to increase their dividends. The move makes much more attractive the stocks of auto, oil and other companies bulging with profits and in a good position to boost payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inflation Watch | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...order to prod the laggards into action, the U.S. State Department recently circulated to some 300 American companies that operate in South Africa a set of "fair employment guidelines." The State Department report subtly reminds the companies that, apartheid notwithstanding, no South African law puts a lid on the wages that can be paid to blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: U.S. Raises for Blacks | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...better to have an inaccurate sense of what we want than an accurate sense of what we do not want." He hopes that the inclusion of the N.E.W. concept in his textbook, which is used by nearly one-third of all college economics students in the U.S., will prod the Department of Commerce or some other Government agency into calculating an official economic indicator along the lines of N.E.W...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEORY: A Gauge of Well-Being | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

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