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...impossible. Talking to plants was a minor instance a couple of years ago. People who had always talked to their plants abruptly decided to come out of the closet, as if at a signal. Before the week was out, it seemed, the air waves and the public prints were awash with the commentary of glibsters who said that, by George, something, ; maybe whisky vapors, made talked-to plants grow better. By the end of a fortnight, sturdy, feet-on-the-ground Undecideds who knew the whole thing was bosh were talking to their plants just in case the lunatics were...
...year, profits should be up 20%, according to some projections. That is not as good as the 30% or so for 1976-but then nobody expected those gains to continue; last year's profits were rebounding from recession. The present level of profits still leaves many U.S. corporations awash in cash. That enables company treasurers happily to shun bank loans-too many of them angrily remember the stiff bank lending rates of 12% in 1974-and finance expansion internally...
...curtains, but even in a slate roof, or a pine tree's needles. Epstein has two palettes, one to render brilliant events like a fire, one of muted greys and browns to capture the mysterious moods of, say, a harbor. Both photographers' use of color is exhilarating, sensuous. Awash in it, one slips the moorings of sane and pedestrian vision...
After a couple of years out West--where he picked up his teetotaling habits from a Mormon family after, he confesses, having spent a night or two during his undergraduate days awash in the suds--he returned to Harvard to take two years of medical courses. Then, Fish spent two years as assistant coach, after which he was ready to step into Barnaby's very big shoes...
...Milan. Huge sums have also been sent abroad by the device of under-invoicing exports and over-invoicing imports; the excess amounts were then deposited in bank accounts abroad. But when it seemed that the Communists might make major gains in last June's elections, Switzerland was awash in a flood of lire. In an attempt to crack down on foreign accounts, Guardia officials were reportedly posted outside Swiss banks to take down the license numbers of Italian motorists making deposits...