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Small Comfort. Such delay, however, could prove costly in the end by enabling the smaller and slower (1,450 m.p.h.) Anglo-French Concorde to snare more of the global SST market. At stake is a potential $40 billion in foreign orders for the U.S. plane, which would help the balance of payments. For the moment, the U.S. can take small comfort from delays abroad. Though the Concorde prototype was originally supposed to make its maiden flight next week at Toulouse, chances are that it will be another three months getting off the ground...
...like a hair in the soup"). Yet his sonorous, spontaneous-sounding scores so deftly exploit the personality of individual instruments that they speak like characters in a drama-in fact, they often battle each other. His Clarinet Concerto, for example, is built around an argument between the clarinet and snare drum, with the orchestra kibitzing...
...billion in the bond market next year to finance the federal deficit. And economists in and out of the Government agree that there will be too little money to meet the demands of private borrowers as well. While the Federal Government and the country's bigger corporations will snare what they need, bond experts figure that housing, auto finance, small businesses and state and local governments will be starved for funds. This year, the Federal Reserve Board's policy of monetary ease has pushed enough money into the economy to forestall a pinch, but many argue that rising...
...high schools, both public and private, now have to give compulsory courses in "The Meaning of the National Revolution." Teachers of doubtful loyalty are usually put in charge--either to break them morally or to snare them into a faux pas that will lad them in a desert island. My friend had found an ingenious solution: he reads to his class the most outrageous speeches of Pattakos and the rest of the junta, thus exposing them to silent ridicule; any extra time is used to analyze the grammar and syntax of the speeches...
...City Manager named Justin Gray to head a new Office for Community Development. Gray's chief task is to snare all available Federal funds for the City. Thus far, his prize catch has been a $261,000 grant for a master plan for Cambridge...