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...sauntered about from booth to booth, absorbing all of this intensity, wondering what message the Forum was sending to me. Chase Manhattan Bank, First Boston Investment Banking, IDS Financial Services--there certainly were a lot of big names here to harvest Harvard's most-eager. Merrill Lynch, Corporate Decisions, Price Waterhouse--was I detecting a pattern? Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Management, Boston Consulting--hold on. I stopped to get a list of exactly who was wooing and being wooed by Harvard's ripest undergraduates. The companies were grouped by field, with consulting, financial services, and investment banking making up almost...
...result has been a buildup of unsold stock, which now amounts to an estimated 1 billion bottles, or more than four years' worth of sales, compared with a normal buffer stock of less than three years. By reducing the grape harvest by a third, the producers are aiming for 15 million fewer bottles. Against current surpluses, that may seem like a drop in the bucket, but it is widely viewed as a step in the right direction. The new agreement worked out by vineyard owners and union workers also provides for lowering grape prices from an all-time high...
Carried away by the excitement of the harvest, some champagne pros are bubbling over with enthusiasm about the future. "I think the crisis is behind us," says Roland Chaillon, director of the Champagne Producers' Union. "By next year we may not even have enough champagne left in stock." Others suggest that such optimism may come from drinking too much of the product. Analysts Gerard Morin and Jean-Francois Cotier of the Bank of France in Chalons-sur-Marne, the heart of champagne country, detect only "a slight ripple of improvement" this year. Larger champagne houses more dependent on exports will...
Briggs-Copeland Lecturers of English and American Literature Jill McCorkle, Robert J. Cohen, Verlyn Klinkenborg and Henri Cole participated in the "Writers Harvest," one of over two hundred readings held simultaneously across the country, McCorkle said...
...benefit reading is one of many taking place at more than 200 college campuses nationwide called "Writer's Harvest: The National Reading," sponsored by Share Our Strength, according to Ann E. Andrews, the group's media director...