Word: lushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Phelpses are trying to hang on, but many of the 75 other families still ranching in the county are just waiting for the right deal. In the lush valley bottomland along the Gunnison, Slate and East rivers, FOR SALE signs are almost as common as cottonwoods. Countywide, 13,000 acres of ranchland have been sold for development in the past two years; of the 75,000 prime acres that remain, 17,500 are for sale. Development's pace is fastest at the northern head of the valley, where the funky ski town of Crested Butte is a money magnet. Opulent...
Looking across her lush orchards, Li Dongju says her aspirations are fulfilled. "We feel like we're free here," she says. Free to get rich, if they can. Free to focus on family matters, village problems, the immediate society, without interference from the government or the party. But Tuonan township is not ready to stretch its new thinking to national politics. Li Dongju credits her achievements to Deng's "wise opening," and she resents it when outsiders say China's ways are all bad. If there is a rising tide of nationalism, it lies less in dreams of hegemony than...
...perhaps, the only Southerner in our class. She brought to writing and to this New England background a feeling of soft Southern nights and lush foliage and intense romantic passions," Lurie said...
...hidden the treasure. While the fate of the rest of the room remains unknown, this small portion apparently was stolen by a German truck driver in the convoy transporting pieces of the room to Konigsburg. The 22-by-28 inch gold-framed amber mosaic depicting two couples in a lush garden hung for years in his Potsdam apartment until his son, who disliked it, stored the art in the basement. Once the son realized he might have a piece of the Amber Room, he decided to sell it, unfortunately to undercover investigators who were offered the mosaic for $2.5 million...
...late 1980s. Then the bigwigs were pulling down huge salaries, out of proportion to company results. The solution? Link pay to stock performance. It seems to have worked like a charm. Corporate profits are at a record high, a task that is, after all, the CEO's job. Those lush profits have helped the stock market soar, as anyone with a mutual fund plainly knows. And it is that bull market that has turned millions upon millions of stock options into pure CEO gold, in cartloads unforeseen by anyone...