Word: shriveling
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...Birds love the sugar-laden grapes (hence the surreal sight in early fall in Central Otago of what appear to be snow-filled valleys, which are in fact a vast expanse of white nets). If the grapes aren't picked exactly as they reach maturity, the thin-skinned berries shrivel on the vines--which, because they thrive on steep slopes, demand that harvesting be done by hand. Yields are low--about 2 tons per acre (5 metric tons per hectare, which translates into about 350 cases of wine). Sauvignon Blanc vines would yield three times as much. Add to that...
...four times as much track was laid in 1848 as the year before. Everyone spoke of the resulting "annihilation of time and space," and in a journal called the Quarterly Review a writer predicted that "as distances [are] thus annihilated, the surface of our country would, as it were, shrivel in size until it became not much bigger than one immense city...
...puts it, "there is one camp [in Evangelicalism] who truly want to follow Jesus, and another, much narrower, the Christian political power brokers, who want to follow conservative politics." He thinks the latter will soon be exposed to the majority as wordly operators rather than God's servants and shrivel away. He regards some of Warren's more prominent critics this week as prime examples...
...Magellan, once the largest stock fund of any kind, has seen its assets shrivel to less than half its peak of $110 billion in 2000. It lost its biggest-fund title to the Vanguard Index 500 in April 2000, and isn't even Fidelity's largest fund today-it now trails the $56 billion Fidelity Contrafund. But Magellan remains by far the company's most visible-and hence most important-fund. During half of the years in the 1977-to-1990 tenure of the incomparable Peter Lynch, the fund recorded gains of more than 30%. To some of the company...
Through my addiction to perusing the entertainment blogosphere, I soon learned that “My Name is Earl” star Jason Lee was also sneaking into homes, ready to make pronouncements from under a glossy page. NBC, so worried that the whole network will shrivel up and die, took it one disturbing step further by adding television monitors featuring clips of the show to the shirts of some officially titled “Adwalker-brand ambassadors” (read: pretty women) in Santa Monica at an outside mini-premiere of “Earl?...