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...apparently raise their children differently from you and me. And no one is as deeply wedged into a wealthy family's daily life as a nanny, so when one (or two) decides to dish, the morsels are pretty irresistible. In Diaries Nanny comes across alphabetized lingerie drawers, a Christmas tree with no room for a child-made ornament and the "Spatula Reflex," a gesture developed by mommies to keep their children's hugs away. The master bedroom in apartments as vast as the Xs', Nan notes, "always runs the gamut from far away to really, really far away" from...
SmithKline Beecham, now part of GLAXOSMITHKLINE, anticipated BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB's acceleration of its anticancer drug Taxol, in part because Bristol-Myers Squibb took a curious interest in amending the Endangered Species Act to enable more harvesting of the yew tree, whose bark produces the active chemical agent in Taxol. SmithKline's suspicions were strengthened in the early '90s when it noticed an increase in the number of oncology positions listed in help-wanted ads run by its competitor in trade papers. Bristol-Myers Squibb had also told financial analysts it was investing more money in its oncology unit...
...Despite written assurances that the new owner would "quickly raise the quality of production and create a pillar industry," Wang suspected the new boss was really after his plant's assets. The factory stood along a tree-lined boulevard near a shopping district: a perfect place to build apartments, and the new owner was a property developer. There was no evidence of foul play in the sale of the power equipment plant, but if the new owner were to scrap the factory and make a killing, the workers wanted decent payouts...
...Thiebaud engages the painting in a play between spatial illusion and material flatness, where large geometric expanses of color dance with the more delicate details that split the picture plane. The viewer is delighted by the use of a playful assortment of colors and an almost comical progression of tree clusters that bounce across the canvas with life and personality...
...cartoon would tell the story—originally outlined in the coloring book—of McCarty rescuing a kitten from a tree, building a nest for a bird, and stopping a rain storm that threatened to ruin a baseball game—all by way of his “magical voice...