Over the years, Carver swept floors in a hospital, pumped gas, cleaned toilets, and picked tulips.
The fact that Mr. Wynn owned Picasso's "Tulips" may have given it extra luster.
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Growers, noticing this trend, began growing more and more tulips with increasingly exotic sounding names and colors.
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Their pale-pink home has tulips sprouting in the front yard next to an Ohio State University yard sign.
Before I left on this trip, I spotted a few tulips peaking through at a garden in Berkeley Square.
It is flat wrong to think that this period created only overgrown tulips.
The most popular flower searches after roses were orchids, lilies, tulips and carnations.
It all started with tulips, then came corn and technology stocks, before the phenomenon ran through property and cheap money.
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She said these gifts dried up when Ms Styler's attitude changed to her and on her 40th birthday she received eight tulips.
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The Dutch also banned short selling against the tulips in 1610, and then made this ban even stronger in 1621 and 1630.
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If one accumulated wealth by legitimate means, was one entitled to "squander" it on beautiful, useless rarities like tulips, or indeed paintings and gems?
Unlike Dutch tulips, the Nasdaq is on course to top its previous peak eventually, though it is unknown how quickly its components will rise.
Scotts can't market natural products in a way that will spook gardeners who buy the chemical-soaked stuff that helps them grow football-size tulips and tomatoes.
" He also loves "that touch of a little vase of sweet tulips or a few stems of gardenia, something fresh, in the bathroom by the sink.
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Lincoln United lost 2-0 at Glapwell and Spalding United went down 5-3 at Loughborough Dynamo, with the Tulips' goals coming from Matt Evans, Ben Garrick and Andy Toyne.
Other harsh ceremonies, such as circumcision without anesthetic, teeth sharpening, and physical disfiguration, make what I suggest individual investors endure seem like a tiptoe through the tulips by comparison.
The best of these carvings have a joyful exuberance, with carved tulips, hearts, animals, or fruit, rhinestones, gold paint, red velvet- lined drawers with secret compartments and pin-release locks.
The yellow tulips in the back are contrasted with the rows of tulips that have yet to bloom, highlighting a long-awaited yet faithful spring that fulfills its promise of longer days.
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As I walk by one corner store, its display of flowers from before the hurricane are still on sale, I see a couple go up and examine the tulips and carnations.
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Meanwhile, Dutch market gardeners had found a way to grow exotic tulips from seeds, instead of relying on the expert splitting of bulbs, bringing the price of these still-covetable blooms down sharply.
In a country where spring and summer are damp and stingy with their gifts, a vase full of tulips can be just the thing to cure you of those lingering winter blues.
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For two years now he has made that point by showing investors a slide of history's great speculative manias, from tulips to CMGI (nasdaq: CMGI - news - people ).
Although it now clearly looks like a bubble, at the time, there were many who justified the prices paid for tulips by comparing their relative value to other food and commodities such as wheat, rye, swine, and cheese.
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While the designer's early collections for his eponymous menswear brand were more techno than tulips (a reaction against his childhood in the Belgian countryside with a mother who was "obsessed with flowers"), the designer has more recently learned to embrace his pastoral roots, first at the helm of Jil Sander and now at Dior.
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