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While Police fans know that Sting's vocal vocabulary is extensive; ranging from smooth soulful falsettos and calypso lilts to yelps and fierce warning tones; the dominant Sting style on this album is a plaintive ethereal, no doubt sincere, chant-singing. It becomes a trifle tiresome, especially on the preachy first side. Here, he casts himself as a minister/sage, eager to dispense his wisdom. But Sting's poetry is most often second-hand or simplistic...
...Love Somebody Set Them Free, which Sting calls his "antidote song" to the poisonous possessiveness of Every Breath You Take, is the least painful love lesson around. Plus, in this song and several others, Sting shows a fine knack for layering rich choruses and leaving space for Branford Marsalis' smooth and simmering horns. But it's only with the remake of Shadows in the Rain that all the players betray and release their pent-up energies...
Still, experts wonder how long no-frills operators can enjoy such a smooth journey. As new companies enter the market and established chains expand, there is the growing risk of a glut. "Profit potential now is high, but success breeds excess," says Daniel Daniele, an analyst at Laventhol & Horwath, an accounting firm specializing in the lodging industry. Daniele predicts an industry shake-out in the next two to five years, but that is a distant prospect. This summer travelers tooling down interstate highways are sure to find plenty of bargain motels...
Volcker's relations with the president remain smooth. Reagan maps a general direction for the economy, giving Volcker, the technician, a relatively free hand to chart the course, close observers...
Lewis will stay on as General Dynamics chairman until perhaps the end of the year to ensure a smooth management transition. His successor will not come from within the company, but is an outsider, Stanley C. Pace, 63, a West Pointer and currently vice chairman of TRW, a high-tech conglomerate based in Cleveland. Pace had been thinking of retirement, but decided instead to take on the tough General Dynamics assignment. Why stay in the fray? "That's a good question," Pace said at a news conference. "My wife asked me that." Lewis approached Pace to be his successor...