Word: idea
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...final production by legendary impresario David Merrick, 77. When his previous big hit, 42nd Street, was ending its nine-year run, Merrick talked of revamping the show with an all-black cast. In effect, he has carried the same idea over into Oh, Kay!, which shares with 42nd Street a show-business setting, a romance across class lines, a vintage score, a romanticized Art Deco vision of Manhattan and an abundance of tap dancing -- plus, alas, an irredeemably corny plot and some less than inspired clowning...
Financial News Network was an idea tailor-made for the money-mad 1980s: a U.S. cable-TV channel providing a constant stream of business programming and Wall Street statistics. Such upscale, upbeat offerings as Money Talks and Power Profiles have attracted 35 million subscribers. But as the economy slides into the nervous '90s, capitalism's live wire is having capital problems of its own. FNN has acknowledged that with $158 million in debts and only $5 million in cash on hand, the network can no longer meet its operating expenses. Most of the debt is tied to the cost...
Other B.U. students said, though, that it wouldbe a good idea for Silber to leave...
...single most important constitutional development was the total collapse of idea of enumerated powers," Weiler said. "In the '70s constitutional guarantees of limitation on competencies of community disappeared into thin...
Overcoming the sheer paralyzing fear of the workplace is often the toughest hurdle. Many women have no idea what to wear to a job interview and no sense of their abilities, and the bills are piling up. In most parts of the country, though, workshops on how to make the transition and find jobs are available. Information is also offered by the Displaced Homemakers Network. Older women are often surprised to find that they can learn new skills such as computer processing. For younger women, the lesson is one best learned early: more than ever, the job of full-time...