Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Says Joe Shannon, the beleaguered prosecutor: "The defense has more assets than the state of Texas...
Equitable and the new managers must also face the unpleasant fact that the fund, which pays out about $21 million every month to 74,000 retirees, may be actuarially unsound. According to Daniel Shannon, who supervised asset management for a short period, long-term commitments to the union's 384,000 fund participant members may exceed assets by as much as $5 billion. To close the gap, says Shannon, employers must increase their contributions by 20%, to $37 a month, while the rank and filers will have to work 30 years instead of 20 to gain their maximum pensions...
...that Dublin plant," says Bill O'Donnell, Bally's president, "because Ireland qualifies for special treatment on tariffs there." Although Keating is concentrating his efforts on the U.S., he recently lured Beecham Group Ltd., the big British pharmaceutical firm, to invest in a 50-acre site near Shannon Airport. (Britain remains Ireland's main trading partner; more than 200 British plants prosper in Ireland.) The products shipped from foreign-owned Irish plants, ranging from cardiac pacemakers to computers, transformers to cranes, are testimony, Keating says, to the adaptability of Irish workers...
Each of the chief characters has a gallant last-ditch tenacity that is the mark of Williams' people. T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Chamberlain) is a defrocked minister with a penchant for teen-age girls. The hotel proprietor, Maxine Faulk (Sylvia Miles), fancies young Mexican beachboys. The guardians of the spirit as opposed to the flesh are Hannah Jelkes (Dorothy McGuire), a Nantucket spinster, and her ancient 97-year-old poet grandfather Nonno (William Roerick), on whom Hannah's abiding love and care are centered...
...heart of the play, Chamberlain captures the self-lacerating torment of Shannon, and McGuire the innate goodness of Hannah, but both are some what out of their depth where the play itself becomes deeper in certain late scenes and speeches that border on mys tical transcendence...