Word: conways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being carefully reintroduced to their native environs. At the same time, zoo-affiliated organizations like Wildlife Conservation International are working to save whole habitats in 38 countries in Africa, Asia and South America and to reduce the threats to endangered species. Says the Bronx Zoo's visionary director William Conway: "Our objectives are very clear -- to save fragments of nature, to preserve biodiversity...
...Soldiers clad in dirty white snowsuits, their faces burned black by the sun, scramble to put another shell in the 105-mm howitzer and fire again. They are Pakistanis, serving at an outpost 17,200 ft. up on the Baltoro Glacier, just short of a sweeping ridgeline called the Conway Saddle. Their fire is aimed over the ridge at similar positions manned by Indian troops seven miles away on the Siachen Glacier, the longest in the Karakoram mountains. When the weather is clear, the big guns sometimes boom round the clock...
...audit, the California franchise tax board denied the deductions and ordered Agnew to pay an additional $24,197 in state taxes and interest. In an appeal last week, Agnew argued that the $24,197 should be returned to him as a tax refund on his restitution. Conway Collis, a member of the state board of equalization, pronounced Agnew's claim "unbelievable" and said he found it "very hard to be sympathetic" to the former Vice President. If the tax board granted him the refund, said Collis, "we are in effect asking other California taxpayers to subsidize Mr. Agnew's wrongdoing...
...three players who were active in the anti-war movement," Gatto says. "And we had Pat Conway, a Vietnam veteran. Pat had done what he had to do and he was honored for that. Pat had a lot of respect for the guys who were trying to end the war because he had a lot of friends who were dying...
...Conway also said he kept in touch with the Harvard Police and the University Health Services in case of urgent calls. But a Harvard police spokesman said his department's emergency lines remained open...