Word: fruitings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...analogy that may help clarify Harvard's reasons for its investment policies could be made between the endowment and a fruit-bearing tree. "Income" would correspond to the fruit, while capital gains would correspond to the growth in the size of the tree. Under Harvard's investment policies, only the fruit is allowed to be picked and sold for money to cover current university expenditures. The additional growth of the tree, in terms of new branches and height, should not be chopped off and sold for firewood because if this is done, the amount of fruit will not increase next...
...Prices effectively screen out patrons who have only their own money to spend: dinner for two at Osaka's Yamato-ya restaurant costs about $230, while four Scotch-and-waters at a select Tokyo bar can run to $120, including a tray of hors d'oeuvres and fruit juice for hostesses that the bar employs to keep conversation going. At Osaka's Club Azami, a patron simply signs a tab, the club bills his company, and the bill is paid with no questions asked. "I don't know how much I spend there," says the president...
...heady days of gunboat diplomacy and banana republics, U.S. companies like United Fruit and Jersey Standard often intervened in the internal politics of South American countries. Sometimes, to help promote their foreign interests, the companies could count on the diplomatic and military leverage of the U.S. Government. Those days are long past. But executives of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., the largest U.S. conglomerate, apparently yearn to carry on in the not-so-grand old tradition. The testimony in two weeks of hearings by the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, which showed how ITT and the Central Intelligence Agency...
...duck in green pepper sauce ("If you come in December, you can eat duck that I shoot myself"). Though sated by now, Englund continued through the goat cheese-Collonges goats, of course-but a sense of self-preservation made him turn down the pastry and the seven varieties of fruit in wine...
...result is density: the image seems weightier, more substantial than any apple could be. It is not an imitation of Cézanne but a photographer's equivalent of those absorbed perceptions of tactility and gravity that Cézanne brought to the study of everything from fruit to Mt. Sainte-Victoire...