Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason: union sick-leave policies would mean the city would have to bear the cost of pre-natal care and maternity leaves...
...reason that Karajan, Karl Bohm, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Georg Solti and the other gerontocrats who dominated the musical scene after World War II were able to last so long was that there was simply no seasoned competition: the conflict killed off a whole generation of Europeans and some Americans, from whose ranks their successors might ordinarily have emerged. Partly as a result, the repertoire stagnated as Karajan and his contemporaries grew increasingly out of touch...
Granted, these worrisome conclusions rest on totally unscientific research. A few recent mentions prompted an inspection of my ego folder of clippings going back several years. Some of the contents were unsettling. Having no reason to believe that I was being singled out for special hazing, I decided that purveyors of the I.L. have a larger point than the news business should tolerate...
...prime reason for the slump is that corporate customers are cutting back on spending as they go through buyouts, mergers and restructurings. "Big customers are hanging back because they don't have any money," says Robert Noyce, chief executive of Sematech, a consortium of computer-chip makers. At the same time, the industry has graduated from an "original placement" business, in which many companies rushed to automate for the first time, to a "replacement" business, in which corporations buy computers only when they need new models...
Senior U.S. officials admit that the curb on assassinations did not rule out American assistance to the plotters in Panama. Ironically, one reason the coup failed is that the goal was only to force Noriega into retirement, not to kill him. Still, there is a potential conflict with the ban if the U.S. supports a coup in which the death of foreign leaders, though not intended, is likely. CIA director Webster last week proposed an effort to define the policy more clearly so that CIA officers "can go right up to the edge of that authority and not worry...