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Word: hoard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until the artist's death last year, after gallbladder surgery, the extent of his hoard had largely been a secret. As compulsive consumers go, he was inconspicuous. An old pal, Collector Suzie Frankfurt, once noticed a slight bulge under his shirt at a Studio 54 bash: it was a dazzling emerald necklace. Yet Warhol's opulent town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side was so cluttered with the fruits of his shopping binges that only two or three rooms were habitable. Picassos were stuffed in closets. Jewels were squirreled away in the canopy of his antique four-poster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Garage Sale of the Century | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...Last week two major hardware manufacturers, IBM and Apple, announced major moves that could have an impact on the balance of competitive power in the bruising software business. Apple said it will create a new programming company, to be financed with some of the manufacturer's $700 million cash hoard, while IBM announced a ten-year alliance with Lotus Development, the No. 2 software producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Software Plays Hardball | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...Many Senators resent the way the large schools like Harvard hoard all the money and all the schools are lobbying up here anyway," says a Senate aide. "It's just not fair and now my Senator thinks higher education is just as greedy as the steel or auto workers...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: University Lobbying Efforts Criticized | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...myself a weekly financial column at the city's 'second' paper, which got me to parties, which got me to cute guys, which got me to some financial meetings of small businesses, and little by little I was able to build up a fairly decent ! portfolio." The diversified hoard includes rubies, good enough reasons for Langley to set herself up as a specialist in gemstones. For a fee, she raises the jewelry consciousness of Beverly Hills matrons. As described, Langley's own ex-husbands come across as flawed zircons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Apocalypse Soon Golden Days | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Ford may be shopping for other businesses as well. After four profitable years, the automaker has amassed a cash hoard of $8 billion, more than enough to finance research and development for several years plus another major acquisition. Last week the stock market buzzed with rumors that Ford was planning to buy the Charles Schwab discount brokerage firm or Lockheed, the aerospace company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ford Slimmed Way Down and Styled Up | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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