The Strand was also where I found a signed copy of The Gift by a favorite author, David Flusfeder.
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Mr. Whipple said he already intended to make an additional gift by year-end, and that the lunch hadn't persuaded him to donate more.
Last week we celebrated the gift by Leonard Lauder to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York of priceless Cubist paintings and sculptures by Picasso, Braque and others.
He said the gift by the late Mr and Mrs Jewell, who commissioned work directly from the artist and "enjoyed an extended correspondence" with her, included five paintings from between 1966 and 1971.
His lawyers and family said the 9mm Glock pistol, which was given to him as a gift by Iraqi soldiers he had been helping to train in 2009, was packed by colleagues for him after he had to leave Iraq quickly to help organise the funerals of two colleagues.
The gift was established by a major gift given Syracuse by Robert Menschel, a Syracuse graduate, who made his fortune at Goldman Sachs and is a well-known New York philanthropist and art collector.
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There are two ways for a grandparent to be generous to a current college student without having a gift snatched by the college.
"House of Joy, " to serviceable but hardly memorable music by Mr. York, reveals Mr. Taylor's gift for caricature by way of pantomime.
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The research was supported by Intel through a gift to UCLA, and by the Office of Naval Research.
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The adjusted-basis typically is the original purchase price, or value when acquired via inheritance or gift, increased by capital improvements.
In making proof of a transmutation of the character of property by gift the usual rules of evidence as to sufficiency apply.
The current number one rental on the UK YouTube service is the movie "Exit Through the Gift Shop" by well-known street artist Banksy.
The shares don't trade on an exchange, and they aren't transferable, except to family members, by gift or in the event of death.
It's an old-world Christmas of heartfelt caroling and wooden toys, where every gift is crafted by hand and Santa hasn't outsourced his workshop to China.
This time the prevailing view was that clients should avoid the gift tax altogether by taking full advantage of the generous exemption for lifetime gifts.
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Perhaps most telling are the gift requests made by the sexes.
All of baseball pulled a Robert Johnson, as in the legend of the classic blues singer who supposedly got his gift for music by making a pact with the devil.
These rah-rah sessions have drawn the scrutiny of the National Association of Securities Dealers, which has decided to institute disciplinary action against Leo Wells for violating rules on gift-giving by paying for reps' travel to the conferences.
Consumers Union, Consumer Federation and other advocacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission in September to help prevent gift card losses by requiring retailers to put money from card sales in a separate trust fund that would be affected by a bankruptcy.
What a relief it is for those parents to know that their children are being taken care of by their grandparents, and what a gift to the children to be surrounded by love while both of their parents are deployed.
He said he did not know much about the donor but was "humbled by their gift".
Paid time off is the third most desired perk (36%), followed by grocery gift cards (29%).
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The assets must be transferred directly from the sponsor to a qualified charity, and the gift must be received by year-end.
None can possess creativity in the sense this learned author would believe, this has to be inborn by Godly gift to an individual.
You can also get a bit of a deal by buying gift cards from this source, at anywhere from 5-15% off face value for most merchants.
The Packard Campus is funded as a gift to the nation by the Packard Humanities Institute and is home to more than six million collection items.
And inspired by a gift from a friend, he'd started writing music to accompany the 1929 wordless graphic novel "God's Man, " told through a series of wood engravings by American artist Lynd Ward.
Unelected he may be, but Mr Macdonald is far from being the first minister who has been brought into government by the gift of a life peerage: Margaret Thatcher followed just this route when she ennobled Lord Young and then employed the successful businessman in a variety of ministerial jobs.
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