Word: prefereable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wall Street is well equipped to absorb the petrodollar billions. The Arabs, however, are suspicious of the fluctuating prices on stock exchanges. They prefer to lend money directly to Western companies, buy control of companies not listed on stock exchanges, participate in joint ventures with Western firms, and buy real estate. There is a limit, of course, to how much capital such activities can absorb, and the oil producers will inevitably be tempted to go for a piece of the big industrial action...
...through December 21, and her "Works on Paper" are at the (believe it or not) Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, 7, Newbury St., along with the photo-realist paintings of Joel Janowitz, through December 28. Porter's work is very exciting, Janowitz's much less so, although I'd prefer his stuff to any of the current contemporary painting at the MFA. Entitled "Trends in Contemporary Realist Painting", the exhibit is a large room full of the most static, lifeless, trite paintings I have ever seen. Lots of exciting things are happening at the MFA these days, but the Contemporary...
Hindsight is a word that comes up often in conversations about the Land-Vest purchase, but no one at Harvard seems too anxious to use it. They would prefer to close the Land-Vest case once and for all, pointing out that the deal went through almost two years ago and that nothing can be done about it now anyway...
...friends and colleagues. Gala evenings are the exception these days for Horowitz. He has not had a drink in more than 20 years ("I don't need it; I am vivacious all the time"). He and his wife Wanda, the youngest child of the late Arturo Toscanini, much prefer a game of canasta with other couples, listening to records (Horowitz likes Wagner), or an occasional trip to the movies. The sound of Horowitz's Steinway is never heard at night. He practices ("I prefer to call it rehearsing") regularly every afternoon for an hour and a half, often...
...moon will probably not set for good on moonshining as long as there are enough good ole boys around who prefer white lightning to bonded bourbon. In fact, while the smalltimers are being forced out of business, big operators are holding their own. The "revenoo" recently seized 1,146 gallons of 'shine (worth up to $8,000 untaxed) in Dawsonville, Ga.-their biggest local haul in four years. However, connoisseurs of corn complain that mass-production methods result in a relatively tasteless brew (which also tends to lack the dead rats and flies that spiced old-time likker). White...