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...opera-house conventions. It lasts just 82 minutes, with no interval, and uses only four singers, plus two speaking actors. The full orchestra has been reduced to 15 musicians. Everything unnecessary to the plot has been jettisoned in an effort to return to the sunbaked spirit of the original Prosper Mérimée novella. Gone are the choruses of soldiers and cigarette girls, as well as most of the opera's secondary characters. Instead, the focus is on the hotheaded Basque dragoon Don José and his fatal passion for the dark-eyed gypsy Carmen. Brook...
...unified government for the first time, and a new capital was established across the East River from Manhattan, in the fertile fields of Brooklyn. Some had wanted to put the new city farther south, along the banks of the slothful Potomac, but wiser heads decided that reason would never prosper in those hot and foggy bottoms. Safely settled in Brooklyn, the new government slowly evolved into the parliamentary democracy we know today, with full independence coming only...
...that newspapers are going the way of ocean liners. Trouble among newspapers is more selective. Most papers, particularly in suburbs and in smaller cities, prosper. Often they are monopolies, "the only game in town." The endangered species is the second paper, the one that gives the community an alternative voice. John Morton, a newspaper analyst, reports that at least eleven major papers are in trouble, and predicts that in the years to come there will be no second newspaper anywhere, "with the possible exception of New York and perhaps Chicago...
Meanwhile, Tojo is confident that his company will prosper. Widely regarded for its engineering expertise, Mitsubishi offers 30 different types of vehicles, ranging from buses to Jeeps. In 1975, it introduced a kind of car motor that reduced fuel consumption by as much as 20%. The company also offers a sound-reduction system with its engines that cuts car noises and vibration by 8%. Such innovations bolster the firm's reputation for engineering. Says Tojo: "We have in our company enough technology to cope with whatever Detroit might come up with in the future...
Once freed from the burden of regulations, the more prosperous thrift institutions are likely to emerge as full-service family financial centers, offering everything from money-market funds to credit cards. The best-run savings and loan associations are financially very sound and will prosper in the new, freer money market. Says Richard H. Deihl, president of Home Savings & Loan in Los Angeles, the largest in the U.S.: "There will always be room for a variety of financial institutions. Some will make loans to industrialize the forests of Brazil; others will lend money to people to buy houses...