Word: markets
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...entering the world of resume efficiency--a world not determined by market mechanisms or moral truths but by the space limitations of an eight and one-half by 11 inch page. With a little practice, you too can be a master of this world. Ultimately, you will be able to justify getting rid of lengthy words such as "assisted" and replacing them with shorter words such...
...just about all the pieces they have sold have later appreciated handsomely in value. "Over the years, we've built collections for families with other sources of income who lose it, and the furniture becomes their savior," says Harold Sack. But, he adds, "American furniture is not a speculative market. It is a long-term equity investment. People who plan to turn it over in ten years might well be disappointed." While prices could falter if the U.S. economy runs out of steam, most investors are bullish on Early American masterpieces. "When you get a few billionaires competing," says Harold...
...industry groups complain that companies that do not want to join may be forced to if competitive products bear the seal. To cover costs, the A.H.A. charges participants hefty fees, ranging from $15,000 to $640,000 annually, depending on a product's market share. "It looks like an extortion racket," says Richard Sullivan of the Association of Food Industries. Consumer groups are concerned because the A.H.A. has not yet made public the amount of fat, cholesterol and salt it considers acceptable. "We don't know whether the standards are too lax," says nutritionist Bonnie Liebman of the Center...
...white artists of black clients such as the Pennsylvania clergyman Absolom Jones by Raphaelle Peale before 1810, or Elisha Hammond's 1844 portrait of the young Frederick Douglass, neither of which is in this show. On the other hand, unlike France or even England, young America had no real market for "philosophical" pictures in which blacks might figure -- allegories of freedom, brotherhood and the like...
What the American market mainly wanted before the Civil War was genre scenes of American life, which might or might not include blacks. Most American genre painting before Homer and Eakins was lowbrow stuff, in which blacks tended to get the roles played by the fiddling boors and carousing peasants in Dutch genre. They become lazy Sambos with watermelons, fiddling clowns, butts of practical jokes. But not all the time. "Sambo is not my man and brother," snorted William Makepeace Thackeray during his lecture tour of America in 1852-53. Yet when his secretary, Eyre Crowe, painted a group...