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Furthermore, if you need to go to UHS's emergency entrance, you have to descend a sleep hill. If it's icy and you didn't already need a body cast, you will need one by the time you slide through their door...
...banks," says Craig Vangrasslek, who studied the drug industry on a Fulbright scholarship in Bogota. "They buy them." Soon the drug pipeline was operating as smoothly and as punctually as a regularly scheduled airline. Almost every day, soon after dawn, Colombians in sleek twin-engine Cessnas descend upon remote airstrips carved out of the hinterlands of Peru and Bolivia. In a matter of minutes the traffickers load up the planes with a few hundred kilos of raw paste. This is whisked off to processing plants like Tranquilandia to be turned into cocaine and eventually smuggled into...
Admittedly, the play does intermittently descend into a maudlin sort of melancholia, aggravated by its overtly economic swipes on upperclass values. It isn't enough, for instance, for Jean to tell Julie that "love is a game we [the servants] play when we get time off front work;" he has to reiterate it to Kristine to the audience, and to himself. These, however, are faults of the playwright, not the cast, and encumbrances which the actors manage to handle well. Norris is particularly careful to keep his monologues from turning into didactic speeches, so that the characters dominate the themes...
...appreciate the canal too," says Kaldefoss as the Peckinpaugh eases into the first of seven locks that descend, like a giant flight of steps, from the Erie to Lake Ontario. "This is one of the last of the great bargains, and most people don't even know it exists...
...blood-red sun was just peeking over the eastern ridge of California's Mojave Desert when the space shuttle Discovery began to descend like a silver hawk in search of prey. As it shattered the sound barrier, a thundering crack! seemed to rend the sky in two, and a cheer swelled from the crowd below. Within minutes the ship had rolled to a halt along the right side of the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, kicking up massive clouds of dust. Not since the landing of the first shuttle had NASA officials been so openly emotional. Said Mission...