Word: autumns
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...largest industry here is apple picking; inthe autumn, the town's nine major orchards--its largest employers--draw busloads of tourists eager to pluck Macintosh and Granny apples from the ripe trees...
...final volume particularly, with its long autumn-of-my-years coda, King seems less interested in frightening readers than in setting them to dabbing their eyes and musing ruefully about life and death and stuff like that. It is a conclusion that may feel anticlimactic after five months in which the novel's narrator has been hinting at a more hair-raising denouement. Still, like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions. You might even say the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel...
...Trust Fund to improve airport safety and security, is expected to be reinstated this month. That leaves airlines with the choice of raising ticket prices 10%, and possibly driving customers away, or cutting prices to compensate for the tax. Some carriers, worried about filling seats in the normally slower autumn months, have begun discounting. A new round of air wars? Probably not, but the industry's profits could be falling with the leaves...
...face of it, seems both simple and extravagant: spend more than $60 million on two autumn months of straightforward, just-the-facts-ma'am television advertising. Perot has always wondered why American campaigns can't be as short (and sweet) as European ones. Now he will get his chance to see if they...
...many of the successful candidates, thesis research begins long before the official starting date in autumn of senior year. In Huang's case, his relationship with adviser Lawrence F. Katz, professor of economics, grew out of a successful earlier position as a research assistant for the professor...