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...million dollars are like 300 million eggs in that they would make a mess if put in an unstable basket. It is Cabot's task therefore to place them in widely diversified yet highly profitable baskets, a responsibility which is obviously too staggering...
...last January, I went to the Manila fish market and a friend introduced me to an old man who was carrying a basket of stinking fish. The old man was Arsenio Taruc, a blood relation of Luis Taruc, the elusive Huk (Communist) terrorist. Since his kinsman's outlawry, he had lost his social position and was working as a part-time stevedore...
...million dollars are like 300 million eggs in that they would make a mess if put in an unstable basket. It is Cabot's task therefore to place them in widely diversified yet highly profitable baskets, a responsibility which is obviously too staggering...
...with delightful manners. Her brown bangs and braids, her dimple and the cute gap between her front teeth made her a favorite of all the neighbors. She could devastate her parents by simply tossing her head charmingly and asking: "What will you give me, if I give you a basket of kisses?" The loving reply always was: "I'll give you a basket of hugs...
...respective services. In a sense, however, both were assaulting a strawman. When the Eisenhower Administration departed from the witless "balanced-forces" policy (which meant that Army, Navy and Air Force should get about equal appropriations), it did not substitute a policy of putting all the defense eggs in one basket...