Word: pilings
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...problem, she says, "is that he's too astute. He always goes through the yellow light." Ironically, Gucci is now also the temporary solution. To stave off Arnault's unwanted advances during the takeover battle, Gucci raised capital that it has never used - and thus is sitting atop a pile of cash. Late last month, the company announced that it is distributing j1.34 billion to shareholders, handing an €850 million windfall to PPR. That gave a big bounce to PPR's stock price, helping Pinault in the process. "We don't need all this capital," says Domenico De Sole...
...even before the last Princeton player had leaped onto the pile on the mound, thoughts of next year were already creeping...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure.” “The whole...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult...
Meanwhile, the rest of a fairly young team was left to watch the pile near the mound and think about the future...