Word: result
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Morris had a few outside interestsincluding skiing, most of his time was spent atthe computer. As a result, Morris developed fewfriendships beyond his rooming group and Aikenlab, friends said...
...referendum says "there shall be no further generation of electric power by commerical nuclear power plants in the Commonwealth by means which result in the production of nuclear waste." Although the question covers all nuclear plants, the only ones that exist now are obsolete and dangerous; Question 4 protects the people of Massachusetts from this threat. If and when new technology is devised to ensure the safety of nuclear power generation, the citizens can consider overturning this referendum; until then, this is the safest...
...been afraid that the economy was overheating and that mounting inflation and higher interest rates were on the way. Now analysts are more confident that the economy stands a chance of avoiding those perils without going into a sharp downturn. "There is no reason for worry in this GNP result," said Allen Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Co. investment firm. "Growth of just under 3% is pretty good. This is more like a soft landing than a recession...
...says conductor John McGlinn, 35, whose passion for the score drove him to record the Mississippi riverboat musical in its complete 1927 version. McGlinn restored the overture, reinstating three important ensemble numbers and, most controversially, insisting on Hammerstein's original dialogue, which includes use of the word nigger. The result is a Show Boat wiped clean of the sentimental and sanitized patina it had acquired over the years. In its place stands a raw, powerful and angry work whose seriousness of purpose and lofty artistic aspirations are umistakable...
...least, is one of many conclusions to be drawn from Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill (Yale University; 602 pages; $35). Editors Travis Bogard and Jackson R. Bryer have chosen 560 examples, some published for the first time, of the roughly 3,000 surviving O'Neill letters. The result is a fragmented but fascinating autobiography that shows its subject growing disillusioned with the theater even while he was furiously engaged in expanding its possibilities...