Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Divorced. Leontyne Price, 46, the first black to sing a major role at the Metropolitan Opera; and William Warfield, 53, barrel-chested baritone of stage, screen (Show Boat) and concert hall; after 21 years of marriage, no children; in Manhattan. Price and Warfield met and married while he was starring as Porgy, she as Bess, in the '50s revival of the George Gershwin opera. The celebrated marriage later fell out of tune, and the two were legally separated...
...Securities and Exchange Commission has been unable to establish regulatory authority over the business, although it contends that the warehouse receipts are investment contracts. Scotch plungers also are prey to arcane worries; for example, if much of the investor's whisky evaporates in storage, the price of his barrel goes down. If all the uncertainties drive an investor to drink, he cannot even readily imbibe his own booze. To bring it into the U.S. he would, in effect, have to start a liquor company, and go through the tortuous process of getting an import and bottling license from...
...perforated to absorb the impact of the giant waves. This technology is so expensive that capital costs of drilling average 20 times higher than those encountered on land in the Middle East. Still, savings on transportation costs and taxes will enable oil companies to earn an estimated $1-a-barrel profit on North Sea oil, or considerably more than they get on Mideast oil delivered in Europe...
...contributions, amounting to $140,000. So popular is the scheme that liberal Democrats are reluctant to attack it. As Reagan says with a smile: "If you're for it, you've got a lot going for you. It's like shooting fish in a barrel...
...prices seem to be on the rise. In his first term Nixon gave 15 embassies to generous noncareer diplomats-more than twice as many as John F. Kennedy, and one-third more than Lyndon B. Johnson. Certainly it is high time to take the embassies out of the pork barrel...