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When they close up shop at night, many Southern California landscapers have to lock up their most valuable merchandise: palm trees. The plants, essential for any chic Southwestern edifice, are in such demand that nurseries are unable to keep them in stock. A prize specimen of Phoenix reclinata, which grows only a foot a year, now retails for $25,000. The new Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas spent a seven-figure sum to install 200 palms averaging 40 ft. each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LANDSCAPING: That'll Cost a Lot of Coconuts | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...lock our doors," said Adrianne C. Dicker '92, another robbery victim. "It was not through carelessness on our parts that we were robbed. The problem with Jordan is that it is isolated from the rest of North House and doesn't have the 'round-the-clock' security that' North House does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Robbed Over Break | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

...full-page newspaper ads promising 20% discounts across the board. On the first day, a crowd of shoppers waited in line for more than an hour before the paneled doors were opened. The crush of people was so intense that fights broke out and fire fighters had to lock the doors to keep any more shoppers from squeezing inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Raiders on The Run: Debacle on 34th Street | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Last season, Harvard (2-4-1 overall, 2-4-1 ECAC) left Starr with a mere two losses and a lock on the league lead. Last night, the Crimson walked out with its fourth loss--one more than it had all last season--and a standing far from Colgate (7-1-0, 6-1-0) and first place...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Icemen Get Raided by Colgate | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

...Gagosian and the rest of his ilk in a bag and shook it for a week you wouldn't get an ounce of connoisseurship. But that is not what counts. What does count is the instinct for when to grab the chicken, the hot artist, and get a lock on his or her work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sold! The Art Market: Goes Crazy | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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