Word: potlatch
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...life, which is expensive but not lavish. The house at Jackson Hole is small, done in comfortable rustic sloppy. Chouinard seems a little ashamed of having so much, though he has less than he could have. He has no stocks, only a checking account. He admires the Native American potlatch ceremony, in which the host would give away everything he owned...
Harvard's residents mainly worked as loggers, hauling wood to a sawmill in the nearby town of Potlatch, until the sawmill closed in 1980. Many of the residents are now retired, but some are wheat, canola and barley farmers...
Harvard's residents mainly worked as loggers, hauling wood to a sawmill in the nearby town of Potlatch, until the sawmill closed in 1980. Many of the residents are now retired, but some are wheat, canola and barley farmers...
...culture to , fit a time of oom-pah-pah politics. After all, who could say that the arts needed support outside the marketplace at a time when star orchestra conductors were treated like sacred elephants and the art market was turning into a freakish potlatch for new money...
...general case of nerves is evident not only along Madison Avenue but also in the growing regional advertising centers, like Chicago and Los Angeles. Says Paul Haynie, senior vice president of Needham, Harper & Steers in Los Angeles: "Everybody's a little itchy." Potlatch, the San Francisco-based wood products giant, last month suspended its $1.5 million advertising campaign for this year because of the slump in home building...