Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Living Fence costs $3 a foot, in contrast to $42 a foot for a chain link fence. Except for an occasional pruning (which must be done carefully), P.T. plants require virtually no maintenance. They take five years to reach effective size, but Barrier Concepts says the bushes last up to 35 years, three times as long as most metal fences. The firm hopes to sell its product to private citizens, perhaps by pushing the idea that Living Fences make the best neighbors...
...make the sacrifice -- for a limited period. Georgetown's outgoing dean, Robert Pitofsky, has found his five years in office "very gratifying," but looks forward to resuming full-time teaching of antitrust law next year. "A deanship takes you away from scholarship," he says. "These jobs are best done on a one-term basis...
...scars and stains of prosperity that he was seeing from the air. "I have no grudge against wealth or business," he says these days. But around 1975 he had an idea: "It would help if more people could get a pilot's view of the damage that was being done." He spent most of the next four years trying to get Lighthawk started...
...exactly sure when or where golf was invented, and only God knows why. The Romans, the Dutch, the Chinese and a few others over the years have been willing to take partial responsibility, reasoning that any grassy place with shepherds and crooks might have done it. After all, what is more inevitable than a man lifting a club to vent some hideous rage on the most innocent object in his path...
...continuing the effete cure on a grander scale; the ironic thing in Bush's case is that the cure would just confirm, in some people's eyes, the ailment. Luckily, Bush had enough money to indulge his urge, under the pretext that it was done in order to make money. How little that motive was actually at work appears from the easy way he gave up the enterprise when it promised to bring in serious returns. In his autobiography, which plays down Andover and the East, the move to Texas is described in terms of the physical work he undertook...