Word: beaching
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...most civil servants from drawing more than one salary, owning rent-producing property, or riding around in limousines. Nyerere's own life-style must surely be one of the simplest of any chief of state; he is paid only $6,000 annually, and lives in a very modest beach house outside Dar es Salaam...
...pilots who glide at Point Fermin launch themselves by running down the gentle slope that leads to the cliff edge, but long before they reach it, they are airborne. They head out over the water, lose altitude, and circle back to the beach, making long figure eights parallel to the cliffs, riding the natural updrafts that blow steadily from the sea. When they are ready to land they spiral up in the breeze to the cliff edge, turn towards it, and touch down...
Long frustrated by the legal appeals of environmentalists, fishermen, beach-front homeowners and hoteliers, the nation's energy companies at last will begin drilling for oil and gas off the Northeast Coast by early summer. The oilmen won a hard-fought victory last week when the U.S. Supreme Court, by refusing to hear an appeal of a lower-court decision, signaled a go-ahead to exploit acreage near the Baltimore Canyon, which lies 50 to 90 miles off Atlantic City, N.J. The most optimistic geologists estimate that this tract contains up to 1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9 trillion...
There is, of course, no question of working outdoors; each painting is a node of memory, a jumble of sense impressions recorded after the event in the studio and run through de Kooning's habitual signs. Some of his nudes, glimpsed on the beach, have lost the fearsome and iconic look of his famous series of Women; they are rose colored, billowy and amiable. The colors are of astounding brilliance. There can be few colorists alive today who can project, with a few judicious swipes, the same sense of wellbeing. Yet there are plenty of moments when the torrent...
Both times--3:01.97 for Princeton and 3:02.30 for Harvard--were well below the existing meet record and qualified for the NCAA championships at Long Beach, Ca. later this month...