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...struggle over the last two years to hold a price of $40, then $30, $20, $10, and finally just $2. The difference between Chrysler's demise and GM's is like the difference of a house burning down in the Wyoming wilderness versus a skyscraper on fire in Manhattan. Chrysler was never what GM was for many years - the largest company in America. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
Caldera, Louis E. •apology for approval by of terrifying buzzing of lower Manhattan by Air Force One back-up plane is issued by following conveyance to of fury of Obama...
Sales have also slowed in places where the inventory is limited. "The consumer discounts are affecting everybody--even markets like South Beach [Fla.] and Manhattan are seeing weakness, even though there's almost no supply," notes Lunt. "Everybody's income has gotten less, and prices are resetting...
...central character is Richard Feynman (Jesse W. Barron ’09), a physicist who played a supporting role in the Manhattan Project. Lured to the Nevada desert by Oppenheimer, Feynman divides his time between his work and his wife, who is dying of tuberculosis. Her real name was Arline Greenbaum, but here it’s Eurydice, and Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08 is appropriately enigmatic and cipher-like in the semi-mythological role...
...Peonies and tomatoes were her home. When my family moved from Manhattan to a well-heeled neighborhood on the fringes of urban Cincinnati, it was my grandmother who braved the mosquito and chigger colonies of our hilly backyard and put trowel to the clay-packed soil. She drove wooden stakes into the ground for the tomato vines, and bared small circles for the peonies. The garden was complete with a compost pile, and when turned out with a shovel, spilled dark black soil and worms. It was as if a patch of her hometown of Zilpo, Kentucky had been...