Word: plum
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...timber was 15.2%, against 13.2% for the S&P 500 index. Behind the strong performance: a resilient home-building sector. If housing stays strong, so will timber. As there's no mutual fund that's a pure play on timber, investors need to seek out specific companies, like Plum Creek Timber (PCL, up 10% this year) or Rayonier...
...contributor to TIME magazine, wrote a cover story for the August 3, 1999 "Village Voice," headlined "The King of Comix." It presented Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer-winning "Maus," as a kind of New York cartooning Nero - made more of luck and self-promotion than talent, who bestows plum favors upon an elite coterie of cartooning acolytes. Somewhere between iconoclastic and a hatchet job, the piece ended up costing Rall more goodwill than it did Spiegelman...
...signed into law (and the Federal Government already forced to borrow to pay for the tax-rebate checks just now going out), you would think Congress had finished writing checks for a while. Wrong. In the energy bill passed by the House last week lies a hidden plum: $34 billion in tax cuts over 10 years, mostly going to--yep--oil-and gas-exploration firms. The House-passed patients' bill of rights also contains some little-noticed tax breaks: $16 billion over 10 years for small businesses and folks who save for medical care. In all, about $80 billion...
...Nobody is sure whether the current coalition arrangement will work for Megawati. Conflicts could break out almost immediately when some of the parties that joined her in pulling down Wahid don't get the plum cabinet jobs they had hoped...
...scouts the fashion schools because, she says, young designers are already too commercial to be interesting to her. The Flanders Fashion Institute in Antwerp is famous for turning out some of the most creative minds in fashion. But she can't get them to Italy, not even for a plum job like this. Complains Lusuardi: "The goal of the school is to train them to work only with their own name." Most of the graduates do just that, and a surprising number of them choose to do it not in Paris or Milan, but in Antwerp. Of the original Antwerp...