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Cambridge not only stands to lose from the cuts in federal spending, but will suffer losses from higher costs created by the cuts, especially where the city has to pay for administering programs the federal government scales down and where the city has to provide missing social services.

Author: By George P. Bayliss, | Title: Reagan Budget Will Cut City Services | 5/5/1981 | See Source »

After a break for lunch. Miller spoke: he quoted Shakespeare. And the weekend closed with a 45-minute speech by Brzezinksi, who told the assembled guests of Knoll. "If the Middle Eastern region becomes destablized or controlled by an adversary the scales of history will be tipped." He explained that...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Leadership Symposium at GSD Features Buchwald, Brzezinski | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

Instead, BartÓk looked to his own Eastern Europe for inspiration and found it in folk music. In 1905 he and fellow Composer Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bart | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

IT IS A GARISH, cosmic nightclub, the figures on the floor drug-addled, lobotomized, throwing each other over, punching each other up, selling each other out. Elvis Costello has played a lot of clubs these last few years; after an angry, violent American tour, morsels of America sizzled in his...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

The U.S. must attract more and better young officers into its diplomatic corps and intelligence services. That means raising both pay scales and mo rale; it also means increasing the size and quality of the talent pool from which those services draw. There is a desperate need for a new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rebuild the Image | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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