Word: shriveling
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...dating even their mediocre products. Does vintage really matter? If a vine gets too little sun or too much rain one year, the grapes are likely to end up with a low sugar content and ferment into acidic, watery wine. If there is too much sunlight, the grapes can shrivel like raisins and produce overly sweet wine. In Europe, where such meteorological metamorphoses are fairly dramatic from year to year, vintage dating has an indisputable raisin d'être. But in California, where sunlight is plentiful and rainfall consistent, one year's wine is not much different from...
...aside enough money each year to meet pension obligations. In some cases, fund managers plowed millions into speculative stocks during the 1968-69 bull market only to see their investments shrivel during the 1970 slide. Other companies did not bank enough money during lean years, and are now burdened with enormous liabilities. Uniroyal Inc. "owes" $450 million to its fund; Western Union, which last year paid the equivalent of $2 per share to meet its fund obligations, would have to pay 44% of company assets-$365 million-to fund its pension plan fully. - Set new standards for the administration...
...Noise comes out of the band, noise like a zoo is burning down. It is King Kong, one of Frank's creations. The kids start to rock back and forth like they always do. But as the full shock of this noise hits them, you can see them shrivel down in their seats until they sit there paralyzed, barely breathing. Twelve minutes later, the piece rumbles to a stop in the middle of an unbelievable shriek from the saxophones. The kids sit stunned...
...language) of more than 100 collective nouns (a gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, a skulk of foxes, a labor of moles), most of which began in the 1400s in England as precise terms of venery. Happily, the collection has continued to grow during the intervening centuries: a shrivel of critics, an unction of undertakers (which, in larger groups, becomes an extreme unction of undertakers), and a swish of hairdressers. Etymology has seldom been pursued with more charm, literacy...
...Institute of Mental Health reported that he had produced LSD-like symptoms with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the purified active ingredients in cannabis. The test patient, he said, developed visual hallucinations, distortions of sensory perception, loss of insight, muscle rigidity and muteness. "He later related that he saw himself shrivel down to a doll, and witnessed his own funeral," said Dr. Jasinski. To Dr. Harris Isbell of the Federal Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Ky., Dr. Jasinski's experiments "definitely indicated that the psychotic effects of THC are dependent on dosage...