Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ostias--C, Nick Zindie (Michael Connolly, Cliff Onlato...
...Council sponsored two well-attended concerts by Jimmy Cliff and Suzanne Vega. Harvard now has an excellent reputation in the entertainment industry, if it should wish to have more concerts in the future...
...Tiger River exhibit in San Diego, that lovely gushing waterfall is part of a 72,000-gal. computerized irrigation system. A huge banyan tree has heating coils in its roots to encourage the python to uncoil near the viewing glass. Not far away, an agile cliff-springer mountain goat is contained on the assumption that it will not jump eight feet to a ledge on the moat's far side that is constructed at a precise 30 degrees angle. "But," admits architect David Rice, "nobody has told the cliff springer that...
...politicians had their own Academy Awards, the statuette for cliff-hanger scenarios would certainly go to Poland. Last week the Sejm, the governing lower house of Parliament, tackled the task of electing a Prime Minister to head the new government. President Wojciech Jaruzelski chose Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak for the post. But Kiszczak ran into such fierce resistance from both the Solidarity opposition and some legislators allied with the Communists that frantic politicking continued right down to the wire. Communist leaders pressured their rebellious allies within the United Peasant Alliance, offering important positions and threatening to retract privileges. The tactics...
...survivors could scarcely contain their stunned amazement at being alive. "The plane bounced twice, flipped into the air, and we wound up sitting there upside down as the cabin began to fill with smoke," recalled Cliff Marshall, of Ostrander, Ohio. "God opened a hole, and I pushed a little girl out." Sister Viannea, a Felician nun, said the crash "was like a cyclone. Everything was flying all over the plane. I could feel people walking over me to get out. Finally, three men dragged...