Word: turmoil
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...shoppers crowding into stores, the economy is entering 1984 on a roll rather than in a rut. Looking back, businessmen and consumers can celebrate 1983 as a year of rebound and turnaround. For many industries and labor unions, it was also a year of transition and turmoil that will permanently reshape the economic landscape. Serious threats to growth remain, most notably the ballooning federal deficit and the formidable challenge of foreign competition. Nonetheless, millions of revelers will ring out 1983 this weekend with a rousing and heartfelt cheer...
HALL BURNS MOVIE STAR, SELF AT THE N.T. STAKE. In September, Hall began rehearsing Jean Seberg with a score by Marvin Hamlisch, book by Julian Barry and lyrics by Christopher Adler (all Americans). There were reports of backstage turmoil. The leading actress sprained her ankle, a leading actor broke his, and the choreographer was replaced. There were complaints that the National, with its government annuity of some $9 million, was underwriting a "Broadway tryout" (Hall may direct a New York company of Jean Seberg early...
...boisterous free-for-all. Institutions that once paid only 5% for their deposits now need to offer rates of 8% or more on a large portion of their savings accounts. That is one reason why 45 banks-a post-Depression record-have failed this year. Hit hardest in the turmoil are savings banks and savings and loan associations. The number of these thrift institutions has dwindled from about 4,500 to 3,600 since 1980. The strongest survivors, like Buffalo-based Goldome, are rapidly expanding by absorbing their weaker competitors...
...press, by its nature, is rarely beloved-nor should that be its aim. Too often it must be the bearer of bad tidings. Since World War II, journalists have covered the turmoil of the civil rights movement, conveyed vivid scenes of domestic protest and battlefield gore during the Viet Nam War, and participated in the collapse of a presidency. Within the past two years, the press chronicled the pain of 10% unemployment. Increasingly, this bad news has been brought by the emotional medium of TV, which can seem rudely intrusive at both ends of its electronic linkage: at the scene...
...Harvard could be any different from those relations I had experienced with whites while I grew up. Sure, Boston had had its fair share of "racial tensions", in the not-too-distant past, but I figured that Harvard was an intellectual island in a sea of emotional racial turmoil. I didn't want to go into South Boston anyway...