Word: virtuous
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...pesticides and chemicals, the growers work with the cycles of the moon. But they aren't part of a flaky fringe movement. "Some of the world's great wine producers practice biodynamic viticulture," says Sterling Roig, wine director at Marseille in New York City. "It makes for a more virtuous-tasting wine...
...pesticides and chemicals, the growers work with the cycles of the moon. But they aren't part of a flaky fringe movement. "Some of the world's great wine producers practice biodynamic viticulture," says Sterling Roig, wine director at Marseille in New York City. "It makes for a more virtuous-tasting wine...
BUSINESS: The stock market goes wild as cheap oil triggers a "virtuous cycle...
Taken together, the positive forces have created what Economist Dimitri Balatsos of the Kidder Peabody investment firm has called a "virtuous cycle." This cycle is a mirror image of the vicious spiral of the 1970s, when soaring oil prices and roaring inflation created rising unemployment, slumping stock prices and economic stagnation. Now things are going the other way. Exults Barton Biggs, chief portfolio strategist for the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "It's like watching the movie of the 1970s run backwards...
...sort of second-tier Dickens, with especially broad characterizations and implausibly-integrated subplots. Buthaving already worked my way through first-tier DickensI persevered. Before long, I fell happily into the Dickensian rhythm: there were the requisite good lower-orders types and bad lower-orders types, the requisite super-virtuous young woman, the requisite scheming villains who would, I knew, ultimately be vanquished. By the time that the frail, angelic Paul Dombey (so frail and so angelic that his doom was assured from his first appearance in the novel that begins with his birth) finally dies in his sisters arms, midway...