Word: ink
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...living artist. Last week the old master drawings owned by John Ryan Gaines, a Kentucky horse breeder and the son of the founder of the Gaines dog-food company, fetched $21 million. The top seller: Leonardo da Vinci's Child with a Lamb, a group of sketches in brown ink, which was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., for $3.6 million...
...chief executive officer from the man who was both his successor and now his predecessor, President Samuel Armacost, 47, who resigned on Oct. 10. Directors also bade farewell to BankAmerica Chairman Leland Prussia, 57, who took early retirement. Now Clausen must deal quickly with a flood of red ink amounting to almost $1 billion in losses in the past five quarters at BankAmerica. He also faces the unwelcome challenge of a more than $2 billion merger offer from Los Angeles-based First Interstate Bancorp (assets: $50 billion). Last week a new possibility was reported by the Wall Street Journal: Citicorp...
...Ohio 12, the Review Times called upon an area artist to outline the image with the assistance of Rita Ratchen, the first area resident to report the phenomenon. It took artist Don Droll, 421 W. Fremont St., approximately three hours to produce his outline, done with India ink on a clear overlay covering the photograph. The outline more clearly indicates where the Christ image is said to appear, including the small child many people have trouble discerning." (The small child showed up later; Rita Ratchen does not think it was there that first night...
...team consensus was to reduce the red ink by a total of about $115 billion. The teams called for raising about $38 billion in taxes; supporting levies on such items as beer, wine and tobacco; cutting $32 billion in defense, including funds for Star Wars; chopping $23 billion from Social Security and other entitlement programs; and taking $21 billion out of domestic programs like farm price supports. Said Senate Budget Chairman Pete Domenici: "They are a couple of steps ahead of us." Of course, none of the participants are running for re-election...
...there have been mistakes, things may have gotten out of control, and it may be easy this week to forget that Harvard's prime business is education, not entertainment. And when all the chocolate 350th shields have been eaten, and the officially sanctioned pens have been drained of their ink, Harvard will be left in relative peace once again--a bit prettier, a bit richer, and a year older, but probably none the wiser. Despite recalling its birth as the beginning of higher education in America, the University sadly missed this opportunity to re-examine either itself or education...