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...clear manual can be a thing of beauty and a joy forever. "Those that are well thought out make good reading," says Catalogue Merchant Joseph Sugarman. "They sound as if they were written by a teacher with plenty of patience who is aware of all the mistakes a consumer can make...
Ebenezer Storer, a Boston merchant, replaced Hancock in the early 1780s, and with the help of fellow Fellow John Lowell he turned the University's finances around and made Harvard financially independent of the legislature. In 1789 the College held public securities worth more than *10,000. By carefully watching market rates they converted Harvard's assets to dollars, so that in, 1793 the College's portfolio amounted to more than $182,000., three times as much as 15 years before...
When Rosalynn was twelve years old, a Plains merchant offered a $5 prize for the seventh-grade student with the highest yearly average. "I could not let up on myself," she remembers. "I had to win it." And she did. In 1980, when a campaign aide praised her husband for not seeming bitter about his loss to Reagan, she retorted: "I'm bitter enough for the both...
Sabath's powerful performance stems from his acting experience while in high school. In his freshmen year at Harvard, Sabath played a minor role as an evil merchant in Aladdin at the Agassiz, but in high school Sabath played such roles as Faggin in Oliver Twist, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and surprisingly, but yet not so surprisingly, Tevye. Of all these roles, Sabath says he favors the role of Tevye...
...After pricing to a point where the merchant is unwilling to come down to the group's price, they walk out, planning to return often claiming. "I can get this anywhere in the Medina," or a similar phrase of disinterest...