Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young professionals are, everyone concedes, coming into the City, but there is no information on how stable, how rich, or how large a group this is. In addition, the City is drawing more well-established residents. Land prices in the Brattle St. neighborhood have skyrocketed, and many homes are selling in the $50,000 to $100,000 bracket. Some people have done substantial remodeling to make less attractive homes "livable." The demand for deluxe accomodations has also made it profitable to build large, expensive apartments, and the new tower at 1010 Memorial Drive may be the first of many. There...
...basic to all our foreign policy interests and involvements, and be able to better relate them to political and security considerations. I also felt that if the private sector didn't commit more of its resources to the development effort, you could forget about closing the gap between the rich northern nations and the poor southern ones. So I audited courses in development theory at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and courses in practical international involvement by free enterprise at the Business School. With this preparation, my idea was to find a job with a private firm engaged...
Eugene Ormandy, with the Philadelphia Orchestra (Columbia), provides neither the intimacy of Bernstein nor the clarity of Klemperer; instead, he produces a brilliant, brassily dramatic sweep of his own, on which he carries his rich-voiced but not exceptional singers, Lili Chookasian and Richard Lewis...
Take the scene at Christie's last week. Gathered in a reverent circle for a pre-auction sampling was a handful of collectors, rich young men, food snobs and knowing oenophiles. Before them was a small, gray-green, hand-blown bottle. Carefully the dust of two centuries was wiped clean, the hard wax seal was delicately chipped from the neck, and with surgical precision the ancient cork was drawn in one piece. Then a thimbleful of bright, golden liquid was poured into a small, tulip-shaped glass. A patrician sniff, a twirl of the glass, the first...
...back steps and breathe the rich air-a mother skunk with her kitten swills the garbage pail...