Word: reines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year before it opened. In Candide (1956), he had attempted such a synthesis, but that show was crippled by a bitter book that was vulgarized in its later revisions. With West Side Story, however, Bernstein's command of popular idioms, his soaring lyric gifts and technical skills got free rein in a show as powerful as a street rumble. West Side Story ran for 734 performances, became a 1961 film that won ten Academy Awards and was revived onstage several times...
...central banks of West Germany, Britain, France and all the other major industrial countries launched a joint campaign to defend their currencies by selling dollars on the exchange markets. Though the Federal Reserve would not publicly confirm it, the U.S. joined the battle to rein in the dollar. Said a senior Administration official: "We spent tens of millions and the Europeans spent hundreds." By Wednesday afternoon the banks had unloaded at least $1.5 billion and sent the high-flying dollar into a nose dive. It dropped 4% compared with the mark and franc and 6% against the British pound. Even...
...such as cuts in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts ("We're trading ballet for bombs," said William Murphy, former director of the United Performing Arts Fund of Milwaukee), other reductions would hurt both lower- and middle-income families. One example: the President's budget seeks to rein in Medicare, which after Social Security is the Government's largest and fastest-growing entitlement program. By freezing reimbursements to doctors and hospitals at their present levels, the President would cut some $5 billion from projected 1986 costs. Such a reduction would immediately touch the pocketbooks of physicians who treat...
This intense focus on defense, to the near exclusion of the other items in the budget, is somewhat astonishing. Reagan called his nonmilitary cutbacks "the most exhaustive effort ever made to rein in Government's chronic overspending," and in any other year they would have raised a quadraphonic howl of protest. The President proposes to freeze spending on a number of programs, prominently including pensions for retired civilian and military employees (other than those on Social Security) and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements to doctors and hospitals. Nearly a score of other programs would be "reformed"--that is, cut deeply. Among them: farm...
...Vatican last year, John Paul installed two other key hard-liners. Jean Jerome Hamer, 68, a Belgian, was dubbed "the Hammer" during his years as No. 2 man at the doctrinal congregation. He was John Paul's choice to replace the indulgent Eduardo Cardinal Pironio and keep a tight rein on the congregation that supervises religious orders. Hamer, now enmeshed in the crucial test of wills with U.S. nuns over the abortion issue, is deemed by some leading sisters to be uncommunicative and insensitive toward women. Augustin Mayer, 73, a German workaholic, was for years the top aide to Pironio...