Word: ripely
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That comment typifies the rigorous intellectual style of Tribe, who was appointed to the Harvard Law School faculty at the ripe young age of 26. His 1978 treatise American Constitutional Law has become a primary reference work for scholars, lawyers and judges across the country and has been cited in more than 400 court cases. Jesse Choper, dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, places Tribe at "the very top of his field" as one of the law's most brilliant scholars. In recent years. Tribe has also become a fearsome presence...
...multimillionaires come from middle-or lower-middle-class families, and few showed much early promise. Several had indifferent school records and drifted until some spark propelled them toward supersuccess. Yet all were independent enough to start or finance a new venture and canny enough to find fields ripe for development. Some profited from high technology and built companies that produce computers, video terminals or computer software. Others found fortunes in more traditional fields such as manufacturing and medicine. Still others turned to Wall Street not to raise money but to capitalize on new ways of analyzing stocks and sending stock...
...rushing to pick and process their fruit for juice. Their losses could total $50 million nonetheless, and the trees may be seriously damaged. Nowhere are the economic stakes bigger than in Florida, where 75% of U.S. citrus fruit is grown. It is believed that a quarter of the nearly ripe crop, worth about $250 million, was wrecked by temperatures as low as 16°. "It was just like Pearl Harbor," says Everett Fischer, general manager of Winter Garden Citrus Growers. "You wake up and-wham!-you've been bombed." Commodity speculators last week bid up the price of orange...
...rose up in revolt. Encouraged by Syria, and in some cases backed by Syrian troops and artillery, the rebels gained strength through the summer and eventually forced the loyalists out of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and into Tripoli. When Arafat joined his forces there in September, the time was ripe for Assad to finish...
...deficit and the trade deficit are basic problems threatening the country's long-run health and the standard of living for all Americans." Unless the President and Congress deal with those problems, they cannot be sure that the economic recovery will develop from its lusty infancy to a ripe...