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...capsulize things that people can absorb. The fact is, Drexel became the major source of capital for industrial companies in the country. Even our worst enemies think only a handful of people did anything wrong, so it's unfair to the vast majority of people at Drexel to lump them into a two-word tag line. The damage that's been done is absolutely unjustified. We grew quickly and we stepped on toes. But we did no more than other investment banks did when they hit periods of unusual competitive advantage...
...great achievement among his series was the Grainstacks of 1890-91. Monet painted at least 25 of them, and they seem almost polemical because their subject looks so odd and raw. What are these things? Anonymous structures of oats and wheat, circular, with conical tops. They look like primitive lumps, soft rocks. Why paint a lump? Partly, no doubt, because the grainstacks implied abundance, the nurturing power of deep France. But mainly because, in their very simplicity, they were a superb matrix for the changing effects of light and color. Sometimes Monet's grainstacks glow like furnaces, their shadow lines...
...Boeing can now get back to speed on its $85 billion backlog of commercial- jet orders. Under the new three-year contract, the machinists will receive 10% wage increases (their prestrike hourly pay range: $8.88 to $18.42) and lump-sum payments totaling 19% of gross...
...spokesperson Katalin Mitchell said the grant, which is composed of a $120,000 lump sum payment and a commitment to match up to $30,000, was awarded in September, after the theater company submitted its proposal for the program. A total of 53 groups were competing for the grants, Cherry said...
...City brownstones. The shifting patterns of light chase M around and dance with her in a malevolent pas de deux, whimsically trapping her and letting her go as her mood shifts from hope to despair. The light and sound join forces to overwhelm M, sometimes leaving her a helpless lump on the floor...