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...voices of both William Baker and Natalie Fisher, though adequate and pleasing, are not quite as strong as one might wish, and occasionally it is difficult to hear them above the orchestra. But their characterizations of Captain Corcoran and Little Buttercup leave little to be desired--save that Miss Fisher should, ideally, be about twenty pounds heavier...
...LITTLE Buttercup's wry observation in Gilbert and Sullivan's Pinafore applies with prophetic accuracy to much of today's corporate enterprise. There are dozens of legal ways in which companies can juggle their books to inflate profits. The most common objectives are to camouflage a poor earnings performance, to help lift the price of common stock, and to promote-or fend off-mergers. Many conglomerate corporations owe their recent ascendancy at least in part to such practices. The trend has spread confusion among security analysts and investors; it has fired acrimonious debate among businessmen and accountants...
Dear Little Buttercup...
...lady is about as masculine as a buttercup-psychiatrists' pronouncements notwithstanding...
...guaranteed hardy" hedge plants that do not survive the U.S. mail. Other traps for the unwary in newspaper ads are fancy names such as "Tree of Heaven" for Ailanthus altissima, otherwise known as stinkweed, or the ever-popular "Christmas Rose," which is not a rose (it belongs to the buttercup family) and cannot be counted on to bloom at Christmas. As a result of whooped-up claims, thousands of home gardeners plant Elberta peach trees, one of the least rewarding varieties. Another pitfall is the failure of many catalogues to describe the variety of root stock on which a dwarf...