Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...served as its model, it is an ultimate and easeful place to hear opera. Its backstage plant is the best in Canada-almost as big as the Metropolitan Opera's. Best of all, there is Conductor Mario Bernardi, who since 1971 has presided over one of the first-rank summer opera festivals on the continent. He began the current season with a new production of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio...
...started a rumor that they might have to slaughter small animals in order to feed larger ones. That persuaded union members to allow food to be brought in; but no manure was taken out, and it piled up at the rate of a ton a day. Along with the rank smells assaulting their noses, Baltimoreans faced a cacophony of wailing sirens, as fire engines raced after hundreds of trash fires and nonstriking patrolmen and state troopers chased down looters. In the first two days of the strike at least 200 stores were vandalized or looted...
Baltimore's breakdown began with the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. Garbage collectors belonging to Local 44 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees had ratified a new contract that raised their salaries by 20? to $3.42 an hour, but rank-and-file opposition developed. Demanding an additional 30? pay boost, two-thirds of the men stayed out; union leaders quickly capitulated and declared the wildcat strike to be official. In its second week, the strike spread to other public-works employees, who were inspired by the garbage collectors' example...
Although the army is the only Spanish institution strong enough to perpetuate Franco's power, it lacks a strong and compelling leader. Franco has systematically cashiered military upstarts who showed signs of building a popular following, and there are no signs of political dissension in the rank and file. Civilian moderates have held no real power in the government since the relatively liberal Opus Dei technocrats were booted out of the Cabinet after Carrero Blanco's assassination...
...strength of such engaging fancies, Brooklyn-born Westlake, 41, a softspoken, owlish ectomorph who resembles most of his protagonists, has slipped into the front rank of popular crime writers. Especially in Hollywood, where his plots seem like readymade movie scenarios-so readymade, in fact, that with Cops and Robbers (1972) Westlake reversed the usual sequence and wrote the movie script first, then turned it into a novel...