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...orchestra has lost none of its famous precision. Yet as buffed by Pierre Boulez, who became musical adviser after Szell's death in 1970; by Lorin Maazel, music director from 1972 to 1982; and now by Dohnanyi, it has added a voluptuousness that sets it above its stiffest American competition -- principally, Daniel Barenboim's Chicago Symphony, Leonard Slatkin's St. Louis Symphony and Kurt Masur's New York Philharmonic...
...treaty will eliminate almost all tariffs over a 15-year period, with industries facing the stiffest import competition given the longest time to adjust...
These days Whitley's stiffest challenge is finding time to himself. The 28- sq.-mi. domain over which he reigns is as demanding as any small town. There are fire and sanitation departments, a civilian population of 300 (mostly security staff and their families), a cemetery, a community , swimming pool and even a post office with its own zip code. Although Whitley, his wife and their seven-year-old daughter Susan live in grand isolation in a spacious brick house atop a hill overlooking Angola, the sense of privacy is illusory. "He can't even see Susan's swim meet...
Since the Supreme Court reaffirmed the right to abortion last June, antiabortion forces eager to overturn Roe v. Wade have been watching the small island of Guam. In 1990 Guam enacted one of the nation's stiffest antiabortion laws, prohibiting all abortions except those necessary to save a pregnant woman's life or to prevent a "grave" threat to her health. But a federal court declared it unconstitutional last April, and last week the Supreme Court refused to hear Guam's appeal. The National Right to Life Committee called the decision "disappointing but unsurprising...
...plea bargain that let his son Brad, the plant's operations manager, get off scot-free. Relatives of the dead were outraged, yet the owner's punishment was unusually strong for fire violations. "I can understand the pain of the community, but this is by far the stiffest sentence that I'm aware of for a worker-safety criminal charge," says Douglas Fuller, a spokesman for the Labor Department. That message will probably spread among plant managers around the country...