He was attracted, he says, by the company's bed and bath, apparel fabric, and Arrow shirt divisions - assets he calls "absolute jewels."

At a ceremony celebrating the occasion, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson called the Garden "an absolute jewel."

It's a festival shaped by an idea, to serve up films that celebrate cultural diversity, absolute jewels about other ways of being.

"It is an absolute jewel," said John Bryan, founder of Friends of the Farnsworth House (www.farnsworthhousefriends.org) and chairman of Sara Lee and the board of the Art Institute of Chicago.

But that was at low tide, and the charts for that day in late June said it was unusually low, so no sweat about getting out, getting that absolute jewel of a cruiser out of there.

Arends can draw up a declaration of war that's an absolute jewel of elegance, but the wording of a peace-treaty somehow escapes them.

Oh, I wanted to tell you, what an absolute jewel you found us with Mandy!

"You're an absolute jewel," Del said, kissing his cheek.

There was another young man: "An absolute jewel!"

I say to the Chinese authorities: please preserve it, through the middle way approach, through supporting the autonomous region of Tibet, so that we can all continue to enjoy the heritage of this absolute jewel on the world stage.