Word: ralph
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...implications. After 48 years as the world's largest corporate monopoly, Ma Bell faces the prospect of being freed from federal regulation to compete, like any other company, in whatever businesses it chooses to enter. The consequences for consumers and businesses alike are certain to be historic. Says Ralph Acampora, an investment analyst for the New York City brokerage firm of Kidder Peabody & Co.: "It is Gulliver's Travels retold for the 1980s. The Lilliputians, like the Government, controlled a big giant. But one at a time, the strings began to fall away. Now we are confronted...
Much of that skill is being employed in a renewed interest in the past. More Americans these days are ready to echo Ralph Waldo Emerson: "We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday." From Boston's Quincy Market to San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, the U.S. cityscape shines with burnished filigree and newly painted trim on public buildings. In Albany, the senate chamber in the capitol was recently restored to its original 1880s state at a cost of about $2 million. Alabama refurbished the entire exterior...
Stars like Paul Mokeski, Andre Wakefield, Tony Fuller and Roy Hamilton have graced the basketball court recently, but it wasn't always that way. A few years back, the Pistons were loaded with talent--the likes of Bob-A-Dob Lanier, M.L. Carr, Chris Ford, Eric Money, Kevin Porter, Ralph Simpson, John Shumate and Marvin "Bad News" Barnes. Even then the team went practically nowhere, getting eliminated from the early rounds of the NBA playoffs--a competition which any ordinary team can make...
Here the Ross figure is known as Deena (Sheryl Lee Ralph), and the Dreams trio is completed by Lorrell (Loretta Devine) and Effie (Jennifer Holliday). They sing Krieger and Eyen's evocative rhythm-and-blues score with impeccable ensemble precision and delightful brio...
Early Days (CBS Cable). David Storey's memorable song at twilight, adapted by Director Anthony Page from Lindsay Anderson's National Theater production in London. Storey wrote this meditation on age and regret especially for Ralph Richardson, who gives one of his greatest performances...