Sublime

They told the story of how KPMG partners resolved $21 billion in conflicting financial claims, which laid the groundwork for the release of fifty-two American hostages from Iran in 1981.

foreshadow a future filled with the seductively colonizing commodities of American modernity.

Finally, Lee was particularly struck by Manucci’s mastery of depreciation, or writing down, which connects the value of an asset to the period for which it will be useful.

In 1935, the monopolization of the nation’s hydroelectric power was being attacked on three fronts. Regulation of private utilities had been strengthened by revitalizing the Federal Power Commission. The Rayburn Utilities Holding Company Act had begun breaking up the giant monopolistic systems which had so tightly controlled—and limited, in the

Gould did not take a title, but had a seat on the executive committee and had four additional board seats, which he filled with his brokers.

For artists hailing mostly from poor and working-class backgrounds, the perennial, high-paying patronage promised by Americans was no less than the proverbial pot of gold.