Word: propertiesâ
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Maloneys' business. Besides guided walks, guests, who range from bird watchers to honeymooners, can take Aboriginal art classes, buy pieces on exhibit by local Aboriginal artists or listen to a didgeridoo demonstration by one of the indigenous staff members. Traditional smoking ceremonies?believed to have spiritual cleansing properties???are held when new staff join, and in the spa, a traditional blend of lemon myrtle leaves and gum leaves is burned before each treatment. Local plants and Aboriginal remedies are featured throughout the treatments, which are based on the Australian-made Li'Tya product line. Ocher, highly valued by indigenous tribes...
...papers like a megaphone to extend the range of his own voice. Because Newhouse does not take a public stand on the issues of the day, because he does not force his personal convictions into his papers, because he has no interest more consuming than the solvency of his properties???and because he automatically becomes an "outsider" wherever he buys?he is frequently treated with suspicion and downright hostility. Upon learning that the New Orleans
Nothing is quite so impressive as complete impersonality. Perhaps a leading reason why the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. is so often accused of completely illogical and ridiculous things?such as starting panics and thereby depreciating its own securities and properties???is the contrast which this building affords to its neighbors and its generally bland, inscrutable and complete impersonality...
| 1 |