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...feeling in having a few jewels, even in a vault. I suppose it is very much like the girl who chooses to wear her cloth coat when she knows very well where she can put her hands on a mink if she gets a little chilly: right in her closet...
...control mechanisms of Phase II and substituted a kind of honor system in which most companies and unions will be expected to obey pay-price guidelines voluntarily. For those who abuse their new liberty, the Government will retain what Treasury Secretary George Shultz called a stick in the closet-the authority to enforce compliance with the guidelines. In essence, Phase III follows the "jawboning with teeth" strategy long championed by Nixon's Democratic critics. Indeed, it is close to a campaign proposal of George McGovern's. Its main features...
Some economists argue, moreover, that the income gap between broom closet and executive suite should continue to yawn wide, for everybody's sake. "I don't think you can narrow the income gap without reducing the nation's real income growth," says Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists. "You would get less effort out of a whole group of people who are striving to get rich. Our whole incentive structure depends on having income increments...
...cave is recalled by the rumor continually circulating in the cylinder that there is a way out, either through a tunnel in the wall or through a trap door in the unreachable ceiling, and by the memory that once man had seen stars shine. But the Inferno in the closet thing to a predecessor ones wander endlessly in a circle, pausing only to climb one of the ladders leading to niches high in the walls, or to join the numbers of the "non-searchers," the "sedentary," or the "vanquished." These are slumped against the walls in the position of Beckett...
...Seattle Opera. "I feel opera is my real voice," confessed Soprano Edie after her performance in the title role of Offenbach's La Perichole. "Just think of 72 people on the stage, all singing. Sometimes I feel I must have been born in the wrong century. Now the closet opera singer emerges...