Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last July Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the investment banking firm of Lazard Freres who has since become chairman of New York's Municipal Assistance Corporation, suggested Otis to United as a ripe acquisition prospect. Otis, although No. 1 in its industry, has had a slowdown in orders because of the worldwide decline in construction starts on high-rise buildings. Still, the company gets a steady and reliable flow of business-about half its revenues-from maintenance of existing installations. Also, more than half of its 1974 sales of $ 1.1 billion came from overseas, where United would like...
Brown got off to a slow start last year with some tough losses, including a 7-6 heart-breaker to perennial antagonist Dartmouth. But the Bruins won their last four Ivy games, and things look ripe for Brown to pick up where it left...
...give us three years, but ll/2 years perhaps at the most. By the time the agreement in the Sinai is concluded and executed, the Syrians will be pressing hard; and by the time the U.S. election is over in 1976, the Israel-Syria thing will be getting very ripe. Unless we have taken further steps in the meantime, there is going to be trouble...
...Ripe Target. Is there anything the U.S. and Western Europe can do to aid Portugal's democrats? In other years and other circumstances, Portugal's confused political situation might have been considered a ripe target for intervention by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. There is absolutely no evidence, however, that the CIA has tried to influence the Portuguese situation. The West could provide moral support; this would probably boost the moderates' standing in the eyes of the M.F.A. In fact, that was the maui purpose behind last weekend's meeting in Stockholm between Soares and Western...
...full view in The Portable Thomas Jefferson, a superb collection of his letters and public writings. The reader can begin almost anywhere in the book and come away refreshed. Perhaps the best starting point is Jefferson's stately, passionate argument for independence: a declaration that issues from a ripe philosophical vision of the natural rights of man. His Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom begins with resonances that summarize every belief he holds: "Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free...