Word: pillars
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...audition for the Tanglewood Music Center, of which Schuller was artistic director. After impressing the judges with his virtuosity on the Haydn trumpet concerto, Wynton offered to play Bach's extremely difficult Second Brandenburg Concerto. "While he was warming up," says Schuller, "he concealed himself behind a pillar, so I leaned over to see what he was doing. He was pumping the valves and talking to his trumpet, saying, 'Now don't let me down.' He knocked off the first three phrases flawlessly. We were overwhelmed by his talent...
...problem is that the U.S. Government stands behind these institutions like a pillar of Jell-O, since it is already committed to an S&L bailout that could cost $1 trillion and owes a national debt of $3 trillion. If more bailouts are needed, the U.S. would have to borrow so much money from the credit markets that interest rates would be pushed upward in the midst of a recession, which would make conditions even worse. "We are skating on what may seem to be firm ice," says Harvard political economist Robert Reich. "But it is thinning rapidly...
...according to people she has worked with in each of these areas, Gould quietly becomes a pillar they look to for strength...
...Muslim pilgrims, a high point of the hajj to Mecca is the trek to Jamarat al 'Akaba in Mina, one of the three stoning points of Satan. Each passing pilgrim must cast pebbles at this rock pillar in a ritual that symbolizes the faithful's struggle against evil. At 10 a.m. last Monday the believers suddenly faced a more earthly trial...
...Americans. We need them not only for military security, as important as that is, but in every possible way -- in the economic field, in the cultural field. For the future of Germans in the 21st century, it is of existential importance that our policy rest on two secure pillars: the German- American pillar and the German-French pillar. It is not a matter of either- or but one of as-well-as. And that does not mean we are diminishing other partners...