Word: cir
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...auto industry largely to cupidity and arrogance in Detroit. Sheltered by cheap oil and the absence of foreign rivals, the auto magnates typified by the Ford family flourished in an environment that amounted to a "parody of competition" after World War II. Until the '70s, Halberstam says, the cir- cumstances of automaking's Big Three amounted to a state of "shared monopoly" in which innovation was smothered, and warnings of dire change on the economic horizon were ignored...
Phillips Brooks House-Prison Tutoring Committee Chair, Harvard Band-Bass Drum Manager, H/R Catholic Student Cir. Volunter. J.V. Squash...
...especially during his long, arduous court ship of his wife Clara. Three of the four couples who make up the ballet (Suzanne Farrell and Jacques D'Amboise, Heather Watts and Peter Martins, Kay Mazzo and Ib Andersen) are doubtless members in good standing of Schumann's magic cir cle. The fourth pair, Karin von Aroldingen and Adam Lüders, inhabit a desperate interior world. For although Schumann's youthful pipe dreams were lightly scatty, his mind eventually disintegrated into madness...