Word: starts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...split puts in conflict two radically different concepts of opera. Barenboim's plan was to concentrate on top talent, starting with himself in charge of everything at an annual salary of $1.1 million; he expected to devote extra time to rehearsals and limit performances to about 160 a year. "He doesn't want a few special roses in a garden of weeds," as Mehta puts it. Berge, who took over the opera association last August, not only requested that Barenboim take a pay cut and give up substantial executive authority but also demanded that the $430 million Bastille opera house...
Whether genuine or idle, the chatter made plain that Gorbachev's power is neither monolithic nor unfettered. At the heart of his woes is the apparent failure of his perestroika campaign to jump-start the Soviet economy. A report put out by the Council of Ministers last week showed that, while the Soviet economy grew by 4.4% last year, farms and factories failed to produce enough quality goods to satisfy consumer demand. With wages now growing faster than productivity, inflation threatens. Other figures indicated that exports fell by 2% in 1988, while imports (much of it food) rose...
...Inauguration neared, Quayle evidently felt more confident. At the start of last week, he agreed to a round of TV, newspaper and magazine interviews. He was assigned by Bush to get his first taste of diplomacy on a visit to Venezuela and two to four other Latin American nations only a couple of weeks after being sworn in. Though Quayle played the traditional role of Just Barely Visible Man through most of the Inaugural ceremonies, he delivered what some advisers called his own Inaugural Address at the concluding gala Saturday night. Quayle said he had come to appreciate Winston Churchill...
From Election Day to the start of Inauguration week, Quayle virtually hid out in his transition office opposite the White House. He gave no speeches or interviews, made no television appearances. Instead he devoted most of his time to cramming on subjects he will need to know a bit about if he is to give cogent advice to President Bush -- or take over If Something Happens. At least three times on most weekdays, including several sessions over lunch, Quayle tried to absorb the expertise communicated by the most knowledgeable tutors his staff could round...
Every four years Americans remind themselves that, as Reagan loved to say (Tom Paine too), "We have it in our power to start the world over again." Reagan was exaggerating, as usual. But, as usual, he was on to something: capitalism's genius for what Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction," the often painful process by which old structures and techniques are destroyed and then renewed by the dynamism of capitalism. The resulting suppleness and adaptability is capitalism's greatest source of strength...