Word: treates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CIVIL warS" is indeed a challenging work, but its challenge is not intellectual; the inherent intellectual content is, by design, minimal The challenge, rather, is for the audience to suspend its accustomed intellectual response to drama, to treat the text more as music than as literature, and to respond to the visual and aural stimuli of the work as they would to a dreams viscerally, emotionally, or even intellectually, according to their own lights...
...second half performance was more trick-or-treat. The freshman point guard scored her team's first two and last six points, with nothing in between...
...does Congress treat the dairy support system like a sacred cow? The main reason is the strong dairy lobby: the Associated Milk Producers PAC was the tenth-largest campaign contributor to Congressmen in 1984. Yet, despite this clout, most dairy farmers realize that some reforms are inevitable. "We want to be less dependent on subsidies," says James Jarvis, a small dairy farmer in Wautoma, Wis. "But we can't be cut off cold turkey. We've got to be let down slow...
...Medicare, which after Social Security is the Government's largest and fastest-growing entitlement program. By freezing reimbursements to doctors and hospitals at their present levels, the President would cut some $5 billion from projected 1986 costs. Such a reduction would immediately touch the pocketbooks of physicians who treat Medicare patients. Fair enough, perhaps, but it would also have a detrimental impact on the elderly and retired who depend on a service that would be likely to decline in quality. Says Jack Meyer of the American Enterprise Institute: "There is no immediate financial pinch. But what you get is cheapened...
...common sight at dance performances. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has reached a new level in this art' they have combined old and new forms, ballet technique and modern jazz with an ability to evoke intense levels of sincere emotion. Wednesday night's performance was a real treat...