Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned down today [a customer requesting research] on the economic impact of the Russian grain harvest failure in 1990-95," he said. "Boston University feels that this info should not be available to anyone in Massachusetts...because of the possibility that some people [who] are students may purchase a paper and plagiarize...
...have [the customers] sign an order form which [states] that they understand that the product is for research purposes only," the representative said. "That notwith-standing, Bob Smith [of the General Counsel's Office] wants no one in Massachusetts to have access to [research on the Russian grain harvest...
...Mart deal is really the second harvest of a previously unfruitful Martha-K Mart association. Since 1987, Stewart has been a mostly decorative "life-style consultant" for the retailer. But the arrangement, like K Mart's bottom line, foundered badly as competitors like Wal-Mart and Target flourished. When Stewart joined K Mart, she was the author of several successful books on entertaining and wedding planning, and the company, based in Troy, Mich., was the nation's biggest retailer, with sales of $23.99 billion and a stock price of $14.88. Back then, Wal-Mart was a distant second, with sales...
...Think of the farmer at harvest time, which it is soon enough for apples, and for wheat in warmer climes. He thinks of this harvest, of course, but of future harvests as well. And about how he must plant the ground for the coming season after the depression of winter, which in itself is not depressing, but part and parcel of the seasonal fluctuation...
...farmer thinks not, 'I have had a good harvest. I will retire.' Nor does he think, 'I have had a poor harvest. I will give up.' Nor, 'I have had a fine harvest. This bodes well for next year.' Nor, 'I have had a terrible harvest. Next year, I am certainly doomed.' No, the farmer continues doing what he has done of necessity. Perhaps he worries for temporal concerns, but he endures...