• Suddenly, a hardy perennial of the Washington political hothouse is once again in full bloom.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Our man Rumsfeld

  • Summarising Oakeshott in this way is bound to make him sound a hothouse English plant.

    ECONOMIST: In their different ways, defenders both of an open society

  • "All sorts of issues are discussed in a hothouse environment aboard the ship, " Adams says.

    CNN: 'Scholar Ship' ready to set sail

  • Unlike so many artists and intellectuals during the hothouse 1930s, the Murphys' politics were non-utopian and humane.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • As in a tour through a hothouse, you relish the grace and fragrance, but you can hardly breathe.

    NEWYORKER: Ma Saison Pr��f��r��e

  • Morgan Stanley 's hothouse flowers are getting more fertilizer than usual these days.

    FORBES

  • Little by little, Wall is edging out of the collegiate hothouse of smart-aleck ideas and into a (if not the) world.

    NEWYORKER: Flashes of Light

  • Brown sparrows and squirrels hop between the hothouse flowers and, hidden among the clusters of bamboo and trailing ferns are Victorian grottoes, ornamental fountains and classical busts.

    BBC: The last piece of England

  • Like the other stateside mogul known by his first name of Ted, this Ted cuts a wide swath within the hothouse of Canadian media personalities.

    FORBES: The Lion in Winter

  • 's hothouse flowers are getting more fertilizer than usual these days.

    FORBES: Tending Garden

  • Sneddon triumphed after 10 weeks of hothouse training and live weekly showdowns to wander off with a recording contract and at least a year of celebrity living.

    BBC: Fame Academy's David disappoints

  • It fanned the hothouse growth of hedge and equity funds.

    FORBES: Soviet Unionism

  • They travel from one vacation spot to another with their hothouse-plant son, Tony (Eddie Redmayne), who grows up intelligent, gay, and very much obsessed with his miserably unhappy mother.

    NEWYORKER: Savage Grace

  • And the amazing thing, in this city of euro-experts, this hothouse of euro-detail, where the jargon hangs heavily in the air, is that no-one can see a way out.

    BBC: By Europe Correspondent David Shukman

  • Afro-Latino expression in the U.S. had its most enduring impact thanks to Puerto Rican, Cuban and African-American musicians, who created a musical hothouse in New York City in the late '40s.

    NPR: The Music Of Africa, By Way Of Latin America

  • His decision to quit the front line - after days of feverish speculation in the hothouse atmosphere of Labour's annual conference - did not, in the end, come as a surprise.

    BBC: The David Miliband Story

  • The director, Bernardo Bertolucci, loves to create a hothouse.

    NEWYORKER: The Dreamers

  • Indeed, now that salmorejo has gained a following outside of Andalusia, some restaurants serve it year round, a fact that irritates purists because it means cooks may have to use hothouse tomatoes.

    WSJ: Salmorejo the Way Mama Makes It

  • Ms. Ephron grew up in a literary hothouse.

    WSJ: Nora Ephron, Comedy Screenwriter, Dies at 71

  • Even that window was vanishingly small, and it closed in 1998 with the Lewinsky revelations and the hothouse insanity of impeachment, in which Gingrich was a full participant and which helped cost him his job.

    FORBES: Newt Gingrich, Bipartisan

  • Sure, the area is populated by legions of well-off politicians, lawyers and lobbyists, but in very few cases has laboring in the political hothouse generated the magnitude of wealth necessary to place highly in Forbes' rankings.

    FORBES: Valuations

  • They cannot be grown in a hothouse.

    WSJ: Salmorejo the Way Mama Makes It

  • Hong Kong is also a pop-culture hothouse.

    CNN: The Really Useful Guide

  • Last week, an opinion poll in the West Bank and Gaza showed he had the support of only 32% of Palestinians, and that nearly 50% believed he would wilt into making concessions in the hothouse of Camp David.

    ECONOMIST: The ballad of Camp David

  • The dream of drug developers for years has been to invent new medicines in the manner of biotech hothouse Genentech, now part of Roche, which used cutting-edge biology to develop new kinds of protein and antibody drugs that could mount a high-tech assault on cancer.

    FORBES: A Billionaire's Biotech Deal And Old Drugs Reborn

  • Aware of the powerful influence that new media such as online forums and the blogosphere had in both inciting and dampening violence in the last election, Nairobi's iHub, a hothouse for tech innovation in Kenya, is piloting an initiative called Umati, which is monitoring and reporting hate speech that could trigger violence this year.

    CNN: Can mobiles help stop Kenya election violence?

  • And now in "The Hothouse", written in 1958 but not staged until 1980, Mr Pinter plays the coarsest character of them all, Roote, the corrupt head of an indeterminate institution where the inmates and the staff are exploited to the point of torture and death, a theme he was to develop in a sparer and more political way in his later "Mountain Language".

    ECONOMIST: From the archive

  • Yes, New York's infatuation with its New York-ness is hopeless and mostly annoying, but in this instance it is really true: There is no hothouse quite like the Yankee hothouse, and to remain emotionally intact, as Rivera has done for so many years, should be held up as some kind of marvel alongside those freakish numbers for saves (608) and postseason earned-run average (0.70).

    WSJ: Jason Gay: The Lesson of Mariano Rivera

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