Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Byrd, Senate majority leader, after playing the violin in Jerusalem: "I am the Isaac Stern of the U.S. Senate...
...There Krause holed up in a suite at the Madison Hotel and began working. "It was sort of like Georgetown," Krause recalled. "I was being held captive." At first dictating his recollections and later doing his own typing, Krause assembled his account in five days, while Post Editors Laurence Stern and Richard Harwood filled in the background. Their book went on sale the same day as Bantam...
...regulations. How, they ask, can anybody put a price tag on life and health? What is a few billion dollars here or there if thousands more workers will not suffer and die from cotton-dust poisoning or asbestos-caused cancers? Says Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, in support of stern safety and health regulations to protect workers: "A relaxation will increase the real social costs that our traditional economic indexes do not measure...
Speculators have trouble getting hold of riyals. Some branches of European and American banks in Bahrain have attempted to float bond issues denominated in riyals in Europe. They got a stern bawling out from the Saudis for not asking permission to launch what the Saudis feared might be the beginning of a perilously unstable Euroriyal market...
...chamber music is also a Circe. For soloists like Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose and Eugene Istomin, it offers a vacation from the old warhorses. For amateurs, there is the simple appeal of playing the pieces, not just listening to them. The Amateur Chamber Music Players, Inc., a group founded in 1946 that promotes evenings of devoted playing, has grown to about 7,000 members. Its directories list names of eager players in almost every state and 60 foreign countries...