Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening will feature special guest artists Lydia Abarca and Ronald Perry of the Dance Theater of Harlem in pas de deux from the virtuoso "Le Corsaire" and the Balanchine-Stravinsky "Agon," as well as the Repertory company in Antony Tudor's "Soiree Musicale," Director Samuel Kurkjian's snappy "Speed Zone", and the world premiere of a new Kurkjian work, "A Cole Porter Suite." The week preceding offers lecture-demonstrations and master classes by members of the Company. For ticket and general information on what should be an unusually in-depth look at dance, call...
...have taken place in one installment last November, but it was postponed because Congress had not finished work on the energy bill. With the legislation still stalled in Congress, Carter decided to make the trip anyway, maintaining that this might somehow encourage a House-Senate conference committee to speed up work on the bill after its members return from vacation...
...stamps that it sells in sheets. Since about 3.6 billion of them are issued each year, the annual savings in paper is expected to be some $700,000. Sorry, but the economical ministamp cannot be sold in rolls; that would make obsolete all the vending and high-speed affixing machines...
Stereo equipment moved rapidly, as did video-tape recording devices like Sony's Betamax (about $1,000). Trendy boots ($175 and up), gold stickpins for women, $5,400 coyote fur coats and $200 cashmere bathrobes also helped speed the buying avalanche. Says Val Holwerda, a vice president of Bullock's: "Anything soft and romantic sold well...
What can be done? The OECD recommends prompt efforts by West Germany and Japan, two "locomotive" economies, to speed up growth. Since Japan is already trying to stimulate its economy, the obvious target of the OECD appeal is West Germany, which has consistently rejected expansionist economic policies. At the same time, West Germany has built up a giant $16.7 billion trade surplus that has left the deutsche mark vulnerable to revaluation on the world's money markets. Indeed, because of the recent slide of the dollar, the increased value of the mark is beginning to crimp the country...