Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet financial discussions and closely controls the banking system, a job made easier because Italy's four largest banks and two largest investment firms are state-owned. Over the past decade, he has survived twelve governments, and has been a key figure in working out the two-tier market for gold and the Special Drawing Rights in the International Monetary Fund...
Died. Nina Ricci, 87, Paris couturière who founded the design house bearing tier name; in Paris. Established in 1932, the house of Ricci quickly developed a reputation for graceful designs; then in the late 1950s, led the way with fashions featuring plunging necklines, fitted waists and belled skirts. By then, Ricci was also known for sensuous perfumes, but the unpretentious Mme. Ricci all the while maintained a low profile that made her the antithesis of her headline-making contemporary, Coco Chanel...
...disgrace" of the New Politics convention in Chicago. He even considered moving to Spain. Instead, Leonard was hired by the Times as one of seven "previewers" who select and recommend books to the Times' critics. Nineteen months later he was promoted to critic-and found his métier...
Petit's extravaganza is a lush mixture of Now and Then. His dancers, tricked out in crushed-velvet pantsuits by Yves St. Laurent, open with the springy "L'Amour du Métier" (The Love of Show Business). As they sing, they flit in and out of a flashing construction of steel tubes designed by the Venezuelan painter Jesús Raphael Soto. Then the Tiller Girls, 16 bright British birds whose forebears were the original inspiration for the Radio City Rockettes, descend from the ceiling in sentinel boxes. Their number is followed by blonde-wigged nudes...
Born with Ability. Yet Casals admits that he has reservations about the cello. He prefers conducting, but avoids any claim of greatness in either métier. From a lesser master, such self-deprecation might seem disingenuous, but Casals clearly means it. "I was born with an ability, with music in me," he explains. "No special credit...