Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American League Eastern Division race ended the only way it should have ended yesterday, with "baseball's Athens and Sparta" meeting at the Pass at Fenway to stage the ultimate epic and write a decisive final chapter to a title and a season that were undecided throughout...
...grab the glory with easy cases, while FBI agents grouse that leads provided by the GSA are not worth following up. In the meantime, grand juries in Baltimore and Washington are hearing evidence of GSA fraud, while cases pursued by Alto are nearing the grand jury stage in Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Boston...
...outlook, and in the context of recent grim economic tidings, it is rather reassuring. Last week, for example, the Commerce Department reported that the annual rate of inflation in the second quarter was 11%, even worse than first estimated. President Carter huddled with his economic advisers to plan a Stage Two anti-inflation program and warned in a speech to the steelworkers that it will be "tough" and require "some sacrifice from all." The Federal Reserve made some additional moves to tighten credit, the dollar sank to a new low against the Swiss franc, and prices worried down again...
...Stage Two recommendations drawn up by President Carter's advisers center on wage-price guidelines?7% for wages and 6% for prices are the most widely rumored figures?that would be technically "voluntary" but nonetheless backed by a threat of federal penalties against violators. Okun speculates that the Government might require the 100,000 or so firms doing business with it to sign binding pledges to observe the guidelines before they are allowed to bid on the $80 billion worth of federal contracts awarded each year. Such a proposal is in fact on Carter's desk...
...have astonished the patrons of Miss Aggie's bawdyhouse in Baltimore, where James Hubert Blake played ragtime piano at the turn of the century. Thin as a blade, remarkably spry and mentally trigger-quick, Eubie confounds his 95 years. At Broadway's Ambassador Theater he mounted the stage, accepted a single rose in tribute, engaged in amiable banter and joined cast and audience alike as they roared out their affection by paraphrasing his biggest hit: "I'm just wild about Eubie...