Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working the Band vein here, but he is still writing in the American grain. Born in Canada to a Mohawk mother and a Jewish father, Robertson talks about American mythology, about leaving home in Ronnie Hawkins' barbed-wire rock band and touring rural America, about going "down South, where the music and folklore had enormous impact on me." All those great early Band songs (The Weight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Shape I'm In, Up on Cripple Creek) were Robertson's way of measuring and transmuting all that experience. The material on this record just deepens...
Besides confirming Van Gogh's status, last week's sale reassured collectors that the loss of wealth generated by October's stock crash would not immediately depress the art market. Says Jay Goldinger, editor of the Early Warning Wire financial newsletter: "There are a lot of people out there who are disgusted with the stock market, and some will look more...
There is good reason to believe that the bulk of U.S. relief is not reaching those who need it most. Nowhere is the disparity in wealth more apparent than in the San Francisco neighborhood of the capital, where huge houses sit behind electrified barbed-wire fences. These are the homes of the wealthy landowners and businessmen who pulled most of the strings of power before the military coup of 1979. They shop at U.S.-style malls on the Boulevard de Los Heroes, favor the Mercedes-Benz SL and try to overlook the rat's nest of tin and cardboard huts...
...investigator did not find any listening device attached to the wire, but he told The Globe that the transmitter could have been removed in the two days after the secretaries became suspicious and before the investigation began. The expert, whose name was not given in the article, estimated the tap was on the phonefrom two to eight months...
Build confidence in the Federal Reserve by praising its efforts to confine the crisis to Wall Street. Wire Governors and mayors to keep public projects alive so that there will be no abrupt layoffs. Repeat to all visitors that it is the President's policy, in seeking to balance the budget, to cut first into business profits before putting any more burden on wage earners. Call for less expensive Government but without heavy taxes...