Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expert at dealing with brute force on the field, Harlow showed delicate care in his collection of rare birds' eggs off the field. After his retirement in 1947, Harlow became a curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...fallen to about $2 billion. Since then, oil prices have plunged more than 50%, and it is now difficult to say what all those idle Hunt rigs and energy reserves are worth. The brothers still have many millions stashed in personal holdings -- from bank accounts to racehorses and rare coins -- but they may no longer be able to call themselves billionaires. Says Harry Hurt III, author of the Hunt biography Texas Rich: "This has got to be one of the monumental financial reversals in American business history. It's the Texas equivalent of the Rockefellers putting one of their companies...
Some of the effects are startling. In Partisans the dancers impersonate wartime equestrian irregulars, without benefit of horses. In At the Skating Rink they gambol and glide along imaginary ice in a skaters' waltz of rare beauty. Typically, the narrative is minimal, the political content low; for the Moiseyev, the steppe's the thing. Whether miming a cavalry charge or approximating the flight of eagles in a Kalmuck ceremony, the company attacks each number with ramrod backs and bright faces, precise and impeccable...
...cards smile and explains that in the antiques business there are no guarantees. Which does not mean there is no honesty. On a hunch, the day before, Dan Hingston, Withington's veteran auction manager, had unscrewed the brass drawer pulls of an inlaid, bowfront bureau. It was a rare piece, made around 1800, and Hingston had expected it to bring from $7,000 to $10,000. He discovered that the elaborate inlay work was modern, probably done about 50 years...
Honda owes its jackrabbit start in the U.S. market at least partly to a corporate culture that fosters flexibility and innovation. The company operates with an openness that is rare in the world of Japanese business, where consensus and conformity are the rule. To boost communication, Honda has done away with executive lunch rooms and private offices. At Marysville, for example, egalitarianism prevails: all Honda employees, right up to Shoichiro Irimajiri, president of Honda's American manufacturing division, wear white coveralls with their names stitched in red lettering above the right breast pocket...