Word: verticale
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Higher Powers. Tom, who lives five miles away, values privacy more; he grows marijuana plants. At 27, Tom is a long-haired business dropout who made a bundle running charter flights, selling dune buggies and speculating in the stock market. Now he meditates in his tiny split-level, made of...
As world capitals go, Vientiane is, well, a little different. The main boulevards are rutted dirt roads; water buffalo languidly nibble garbage in its gutters, and in the White Rose nightclub, bar girls dance naked with the customers. Vientiane's architectural showpiece, a soaring monument to the dead, is...
Such a shift would end a pattern of vertical integration that has prevailed in petroleum since the heyday of John D. Rockefeller. Harvard Economist Marc J. Roberts argues that the indus try is dominated by vertically integrated firms because the action against Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. in 1911...
The companies contend that vertical integration is an economic necessity that works in the best interest of consumers. By controlling production, they say, they ensure that their refineries will be supplied, and by operating retail outlets, they guarantee that the refineries will turn out products that are in demand. They...
Especially effective is Macbeth's last encounter with the witches. A green-lit trap in the stage is the cauldron in which they make their unholy brew. Simultaneously the vertical circle functions as a top view of the cauldron, changing colors constantly like a kaleidoscope. When "a baboon's blood...