Word: stampeders
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Bankers' acceptances are widely used in foreign trade transactions. If an exporter sells a shipment of goods to a foreign customer, three months or more can go by before the exporter gets paid. Meanwhile, he must carry the cost of the goods he has already sold and shipped. To...
Those faces-stamped, printed and painted on nearly everything-are not, alas, always recognizable. The Guardian sneered that a foreign visitor might suppose "that we were preparing to celebrate the wedding of Miss Bo Derek to the late Count Dracula." Nor do all the portraits meet the palace directive that...
Some time during the past 159 years, the official seal of Missouri turned unofficial. According to a state law passed in 1822, the seal is supposed to depict two Missouri grizzlies on their hind legs, each gazing out at the citizenry. The current version includes the mandated bears, but their...
"Everything was effortless; and, to him, consequently, seemed stamped with style." -By Paul Gray
These are the people who will leave Harvard this year, and for another 347 years, to become loyal alumni of the Porcellian Club and lawyers in New York earning six-figure salaries. For with the Harvard name stamped on a diploma that you can hang up on the wall and...