Word: taper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough to cheer about. Recessions are usually slow to take the steam out of prices, and a tight money policy requires months to produce results. In fact, high interest rates will continue to add to inflation until they start to curb overall demand, and then prices are expected to taper off. Despite rising unemployment, wages and benefits stand to accelerate. They increased about 8% this year, or much less than the rate of inflation, and workers can make a strong case for more, just to catch...
...results of his campaign are impressive. Hundreds of companies, including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the St. Louis Symphony, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Houston Grand Opera and the New York City Ballet, have had increases of 100% or more since Newman started advising them. The Louisville Ballet has already sold out the up coming fall season with 7,000 subscribers and 2,000 more on a waiting list. Says General Manager Michael Durham: "His book is our bible...
...there had been a savory ethnic core to the musical, it might have taken flight, but both the music and the dances are grounded in standard World War II U.S.O. fare. A raging hit since its debut at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Zoot Suit, unlike California wines, has not traveled well...
...center's theater building, now under construction, will almost comply with Moliere's notion that all drama needs is a platform and a passion or two. It will house three theaters, none with a conventional proscenium. Seawell called in Gordon Davidson of Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum as consultant. He has come up with a plan to ally his own successful theater with Denver's troupe to be. "Time is the hardest thing to buy," says Davidson, 44, whose theater won a Tony Award last year. "While its own resident company is evolving, Denver can borrow...
Snow is expected to taper off this evening, with gale force winds decreasing towards evening...