Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle East, where loyalty is to individuals, not institutions; he understands the psychology of one-on-one haggling, not the culture of corporations. "I am a trader," he says. "If I can make a decent profit, I prefer to take it and get out. There are others who hang on to an investment in the hope of realizing profits several times the money invested. They are welcome to their method. I prefer mine...
...decision is almost certain to be appealed. Yet even when the final court has its final say, the echoes of Whitehead's anguished question will still hang in the air. If a society legitimates surrogacy, what has it done? Has it imperiled its most venerable notions of kinship and the bond between mother and child? Has it opened the way to a dismal baby industry, in which well-to-do couples rent out the wombs of less affluent women, sometimes just to spare themselves the inconvenience of pregnancy? Yet if surrogacy is prohibited, has a promising way for childless couples...
...after five years at Harvard, with a year teaching at Oberlin in between, Robison is about to hang up her red pen. "There simply isn't any extension on their side, and I have two books five years overdue, so there simply isn't any extension on my side. I reached a point where I was a better teacher than a writer...
...paintings sell well, nor have they brought Matthews lasting fame, but that doesn't deter him. "It doesn't matter to me. I don't understand why some people like to say how much they pay for art. I buy what I like. I'll hang anything, I don't care if it goes with the couch. I buy it because I like to look at it, not as an investment," he says...
...Matthews's favorite paintings is a Jackson Pollack painting he did in the late '60s. This painting, "Landscape with Woman" was chosen in the 1970 Da Vinci Open ArtCompetition to hang in the New York InternationalArt Show. The work now hangs in his home andalthough he often takes it with him to shows, hesays he never really intends to sell...