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...about Social Security in forthcoming federal budgets initially focused on quick, temporary ways to conserve cash. Among the suggestions: a one-year freeze on cost of living adjustments (COLAS) in Social Security pension benefits and many other federal programs, an idea first put forward in February by Democratic Senator Ernest Rollings of South Carolina, which would save $11.3 billion; and a three-month delay in the COLA that might be paid in July 1983 (estimated savings: $3.3 billion at an 8% inflation rate), a plan advanced by Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker in an unsuccessful attempt to keep budget-compromise...
...fiscal 1983 had broken down amid partisan squabbling, a new compromise proposal was hastily approved by Ronald Reagan and the Republican-controlled Senate Budget Committee. Yet no sooner had the White House and G.O.P. leaders reached that accord than congressional Democrats launched a broadside against it. Charged Senator Ernest Rollings of South Carolina, the ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee: "It's Stockman and his gimmickry. These are squishy figures...
...idea of producing Falstaff originated four years ago, when Giulini became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, succeeding Zubin Mehta. He and Ernest Fleischmann, the orchestra's shrewd executive director, agreed that Giulini would lead at least one fully staged opera under ideal working conditions during his tenure. Since 1968, when he performed Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the Met, Giulini has turned down all offers to conduct opera in the theater. Accustomed to only new productions at such major opera houses as Milan's La Scala and London's Covent Garden, Giulini...
EVER SINCE THE DAY Washington Irving disembarked in Liverpool to sketch the English countryside. American writers have ventured to foreign locales in search of a sensibility they have felt they could only capture abroad. Henry Adams and Ezra Pound. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald all passed their moments in Europe against the backdrop of a culture that far overshadowed their...
...many ways the history of the film is as inspiring as its plot, illustrating the rewards of devotion and tenacity. Written by Actor Ernest Thompson, Golden Pond debuted as an off-Broadway play in September 1978. Transferred to Broadway in March 1979, it did mediocre business and lasted only through June. Then something unusual happened. Three new producers resuscitated the play a few months later, and it remained on Broadway until the spring of 1980. It still did not catch on, however. When the two Broadway runs finally ended, the total loss was about...