E. B. White
E. B. White
Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, an accomplishment repeated in earlier surveys...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 July 1899
CountryUnited States of America
It fills a little niche; nobody's ever written about this before in this way because it's a book about a serious subject but told with such a respectful, light touch. It's one of those books you sit down and read start to finish because you can't put it down. And after you finish, you say 'My aunt would like this, and so would my great-grandmother and my sister.' And so people will buy one, and then come back and buy 10.
I don't solicit money from my employees, ... I indicated earlier that we will not require them to buy fundraising tickets, to sell fundraising tickets or do political work.
People who would never buy otherwise decide they might as well get in the game.
The big benefit is you're restoring the worn part, as opposed to throwing it away and buying a new one. But another big benefit is that we can do that on-site, instead of in a machine shop.
The beauty of Janice?s gift was that there were no restrictions. But we, in a sense, created a restriction because we wanted to honor her for this quite amazing gift. But not just buying a new set of orchestra chairs but by creating an event that would honor her gift and put the Missouri Symphony Orchestra on the map, above and beyond having a great summer music festival, and see where it goes from here.
We would still buy it at these levels, ... The stock has excellent earnings momentum right now. Great product pipeline. So, this is a stock that we'd still want to be involved in.
Although there is no permanent advertising space available on the scoreboard, Mr. Robinson or any other business or non-profit organization is welcome to buy time on the plasma screen.
If you are going to buy a car from your neighbor down the street, there is a process that goes into that.
I guess the real question here is, what is the cost of bond market volatility and what is the cost of the Fed's miscommunication with the market? ... They went out and told everybody to buy bonds and then they cut their legs off.
The Irish made fewer than 20 deals. But the prices of the deals are astounding. They're buying the most expensive properties.
The loans market is the most competitive it's been for a long time as lenders continue to leap frog one another to remain at, or reach, the top of the best buy tables.
We've been talking to some of Nordstrom's online users, who are very, very important customers, and they talk about how when they go online sometimes they shop and sometimes they look for fashion inspiration.
We just played bigger people the last two games. We're not going to play 6-10, 6-10, 6-10, 6-10, 6-10 Thursday. I think we should be all right.
We were overdue for a bounce after some very oversold conditions. Maybe we are getting to a point where the market is beaten-up enough.