Mr. Peress began leading orchestras around the country, hoping to work his way one day to a big conducting position in New York.
The task of removing lead-contaminated soil from thousands of homes near a closed Vernon battery recycling plant would be the largest cleanup of its kind in California and rank among the biggest conducted nationwide, say environmental officials and experts in toxic remediation.
At the top of the food chain, the big fish conduct transactions in metric tons, selling the spoils to legitimate recycling firms that prepare the material for export.
At the moment, auditors are supposedly kept honest by a longstanding system of self-regulation, in which big firms conduct "peer reviews" of each others' audit practices.
Part of the reason is China's crackdown on corruption, which has deterred some of its super-rich from dealing with the informal "junkets", gambling enterprises through which many big spenders conduct their business at Macau's casinos.
When to Start Paying AttentionMarch 1, also known as Super Tuesday, is the day that a large chunk of big states conduct their primaries.
The sample size is not very big to conduct a multiple-regression analysis.
A few weeks ago, in Jackson, Mississippi, Big Bird conducted the seventy-five-piece Jackson Symphony Orchestra.
At one center for disabled people, a woman stood before the stage with a big stick, conducting the band from start to finish.
Caroll Spinney, 74, the man inside the bird since "Sesame Street" was first telecast in 1969, said, "We traveled the world doing shows for kids, sometimes with Big Bird conducting orchestras".
