Word: bonsai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equity stake in twelve of Rockefeller Center's buildings in the year 2000. If the holders execute that option, Mitsubishi Estate's ownership in the storied center will slip into minority status -- and any fears that the towering Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center will be replaced by a tiny bonsai plant in Mitsubishi Center will prove to have been misplaced...
...been a deep love of nature. Typical is the story of the monk Ryokan who slept under mosquito netting in the summer not to prevent being bitten by an insect but to avoid squashing one inadvertently while he slept. The Japanese, though, have never been passive conservationists. Consider the bonsai, the tiny trees that are shaped over generations into living pieces of sculpture. The bonsai represent the landscape architect's respect for nature, but also the notion that nature is at its best when shaped by the hand...
...Mirror's pages read like a chapter from Tom Peters' In Search of Excellence. In this place of punishment, achievement is possible and highly promoted. The newsmakers in a fall edition of the Mirror were Karta Singh and the other bonsai-club members, who practically blew away the civilian competition at the Minnesota State Fair. "I'm ecstatic about it," Singh told the Mirror. "Winning a blue ribbon motivates me even more, and I think it's a testament to the quality of instruction we're getting...
Keeping an editorial balance among publicity seekers, black culturalists, bonsai growers and softball teams complaining of favoritism is physically demanding. Taliaferro measures up to the job. "I'm 6 ft. 7 in. tall and weigh 200 lbs.," Taliaferro says. "I came out of other systems where you had to be tough." Readers and staff writers who disagree with the editor are sometimes - invited to the prison gym to put on boxing gloves. "I'm not afraid to fight for my opinion, be it ever so humble," the editor says. "And I'm not afraid to be locked in the hole...
Nightstage--Uncle Bonsai, Tracy Chapman...