Word: straying
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Alas, few major institutions, the ones with the largest budgets and highest profiles, are willing to stray too far from their Top 40, oldies-only play lists. But American musicians are the most flexible in the world; none can read new scores more adeptly or are able to confront so many styles with such aplomb. Why not put this talent to use? As Atlanta's Shaw observes, "The American symphony orchestra is not only failing to serve its audience in the fullest measure, but to its own members it offers a life of such restricted fare and expression that...
Although Paul Simon's recent surge in Iowa was interpreted as a boost from a constituency that still remembers Harry Truman, the retirees' vote seems up for grabs. So far the only candidates who have dared stray from the party line are those so far behind in the polls that they have little to lose. Bruce Babbitt talks of raising taxes on Social Security benefits of the affluent elderly. Pat Robertson and Pete du Pont warn that Social Security is threatened with bankruptcy and advocate shifting some of the burden to private plans. "When the baby-boom generation retires...
Reagan's desire not to stray too far from his conservative base also probably accounted for some of his caution in dealing with arms control at the summit. As he has pursued his visions of disarmament through strength, many Republican strategists -- notably Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger -- warned that the headlong rush to cut missiles was not being guided by any strategic vision of how the U.S. and its allies could best defend their vital interests. Yet another surprise "breakthrough" that discarded the carefully wrought strategies of deterrence could have been disconcerting...
...this breed. Tall and skinny, of indeterminate antiquity, she is known as Weekly, or the Newspaper of Claremont Street, because she cleans the houses and spreads the gossip in a prosperous old neighborhood of an unnamed Australian city. Weekly is a de facto tyrant. When a stray cat periodically invades her sparse room to give birth, Weekly knows that she can give away the kittens as presents to the children of her employers ("Oh Weekly you shouldn't have. Really you shouldn't"). Any household unwise enough to turn down such a gift risks full disclosure of embarrassing secrets...
...prospect of increased tourism appears bleak. Grenada's twelve hotels remain half empty during peak season. Cruise ships make regular stops, but the mad dashes of passengers through gift shops are hardly a permanent boon to the economy. Vendors hawking spices and tropical shirts comb the beaches for stray tourists...