Word: ripest
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...Another school may hasten the departure of a promising young professor by offering a great deal such as an associate tenured position. “Harvard is probably the ripest place to pick scholars from,” says Casey...
...management. "The bar is very high," he says of the obstacles. "We have to be seen as competent, coherent and unified?that we have a clear purpose." It's too early to tell how Labor will play the election, but Beazley and his colleagues have been road-testing their ripest ideas. In the hand-to-hand combat of daily news, and the endless campaign loop, Labor is gaining ground on industrial relations, climate change and volatile consumer issues (petrol prices). So far, Beazley has rolled out "blueprint" statements on issues such as early childhood, energy and skills; his colleagues have...
...Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and lent her increasing heft to The Poseidon Adventure. But her ripest later role was as herself: a tell-all memoirist and rowdy talk-show guest who was still entertaining audiences by exasperating men. DIED. SIDNEY FRANK, 86, eccentric beverage-marketing guru who in 1997 introduced the "superpremium" Grey Goose vodka--with its frosted bottle, Czanne-inspired label and $30-a-bottle...
...Rwanda; and aided by the U.S. Agency for International Development - formed the Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages (pearl). One idea: create cooperatives whose farmers, 20% of whom are genocide widows or orphans, learn a multistep process for producing gourmet coffee that involves harvesting only the ripest beans and washing, sorting and drying them at new community washing stations. Ironically, Rwandans don't traditionally drink coffee. So importer Griswold took his customers to Rwanda to brew coffee with the farmers, showing them exactly the kind of taste and consistent quality the market is looking for. The farmers were...
...Rwanda; and aided by the U.S. Agency for International Development--formed the Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages (PEARL). One idea: create cooperatives whose farmers, 20% of whom are genocide widows or orphans, learn a multistep process for producing gourmet coffee that involves harvesting only the ripest beans and washing, sorting and drying them at new community washing stations...