Word: straussed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Strauss Cup is awarded each year to the House which accumulates the most points in intramural competition...
...spirited orchestra than this one," says Solti, 70. "If they have a conductor they respect, they will go through hell for him." The Chicago spirit is evident both in music of the classical period, like Mozart's, and in the great romantic works: Mahler and Bruckner symphonies and Strauss tone poems. Last week's dazzling performance under Solti of Wagner's complete opera Das Rheingold matched an orchestra at the top of its form with a conductor at the height of his interpretive prowess...
...Christian Democrats, five Christian Socialists and three Free Democrats. There were only two new faces: Christian Democrat Heinrich Windelen (Inter-German Affairs) and Christian Socialist Ignaz Kiechle (Agriculture). Most significantly, Free Democrat Leader Hans-Dietrich Genscher stayed on as Foreign Minister. A man who coveted that job-Franz-Josef Strauss, the right-wing leader of the Christian Democrats' sister party in Bavaria, the Christian Social Union-thus remained without a portfolio in the national government...
Kohl intends to re-establish the coalition government that he created nearly six months ago, after the Free Democrats fled their partnership with Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Kohl's first order of business last week was to rebuff Franz Josef Strauss, 67, the brilliant but abrasively ambitious leader of Kohl's Bavarian-based sister party. In a "harmonious" 90-minute meeting at the Christian Democratic headquarters in Bonn, Strauss appeared to expect that the Free Democrats would be shunted aside in the coalition hierarchy and that he, and not Genscher, would be granted the dual posts...
Advertisers apparently share that optimism; the network has already lassoed such big league sponsors as Kraft Foods, Levi Strauss, Ford, Sears and R.J. Reynolds. "We launched TNN on Monday with 20 advertisers," says Dan Ruth, a spokesman for Group W. "We sold all the time we had." The going rate: $800 a minute. According to Robert Alter, president of the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau, an industry trade group, "There's a very definite market for country music, and the market is probably more universal than people suspect...