Word: savorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...borrowing money. Support is growing in Congress for proposals that would curtail the present liberal tax treatment for capital gains-now one of the prime incentives for wealthy investors to form venture capital groups. But as long as cash-strapped entrepreneurs dream of building giant companies, and wealthy investors savor the excitement of backing new ideas, the venture capital industry will be around...
...physical fatigue after a tough workout; in the conditioning that was maintained by pushing your body to the limits of its endurance. The exhilaration after winning a race was an untouchable moment--all the tension and anxiety which had built up beforehand was released, and there was time to savor the moment of victory...
While this year's Columbia squad is not a vintage combine, a victory over the Lions would have given Harvard something to savor in a disappointing year. For a while it looked like Harvard might pull it off. But instead of an upset win, the Crimson had nothing but a third straight 14-13 loss in Ivy League competition...
...with all the disproportionate rewards (Simon owns a plush town house, a country place, a Broadway theater, real estate, cattle and, very possibly, the Atlantic Ocean), he seems less than joyful. He has been described, too often, as a mechanical "yockmeister" whose characters are only scan deep. Moreover, the savor seems to have gone out of his triumphs. Another Simon smash is no longer news; it would take a failure to astonish anyone, and Simon seems incapable of one. All of which drove Simon into a deep depression last year, a gloom from which he is only beginning to emerge...
Some American place names have a unique resonance about them-places like Maggie's Nipples, Wyo., or Greasy Creek, Ark., Lickskillet, Ky., or Scroungeout, Ala. Collectors of Americana also savor Braggadocio, Mo., the Humptulips River in Washington, Hen Scratch, Fla., Dead Irishman Gulch, S. Dak., Cut 'N Shoot, Texas, Helpmejack Creek, Ark., Bastard Peak, Wyo., Goon Dip Mountain, Ark., Tenstrike, Minn., Laughing Pig, Wyo., Two Teats, Calif., or Aswaguscawadic...