Word: montes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...perestroika. The latest sign of Soviet chic: Moscow unveiled an ad campaign last week to lure U.S. business travelers onto Aeroflot, the national airline. Created by Miami's Kelley Swofford Inc., the ads tempt Americans with "perestroika perks" ranging from complimentary nights in a Moscow hotel to a free Mont Blanc pen "to sign your deal with the Russians...
...dangerous sport too, but less for the fish than for the angler's relatives. Fly-fishermen can quickly become world-class bores. Solitude becomes an end in itself. Spouses bristle at the suggestion that family vacations should consist of two weeks at some bug-infested fishing camp in Forsaken, Mont. Dinner-party invitations trail off as conversation seems to center on the pleasures of fishing nymphs in deep riffles or the relative merits of bamboo and graphite fly rods. Children growl at the proposal that the backyard pool be returned to nature and converted to a trout pond...
Hinz, originally from Great Falls, Mont., rushed for 686 yards and caught 36 passes out of the backfield for the 3-7 Crimson last year. He finished his Harvard career with 1625 yards (5.0 yds./carry), 55 receptions for another 801 yards and 16 touchdowns...
Move over, Ben Cartwright. Some rich new cattle barons have come to town. In the past year Japanese investors have developed an appetite for U.S. beef- producing properties, including ranches, feedlots and packinghouses. Zenchiku, a major Tokyo-based meat importer, bought the 80,000-acre Selkirk Ranch near Dillon, Mont., last October for $13 million. A company called Mt. Shasta Beef, formed by Japanese entrepreneur Masa Tanabe and three California cattlemen, spent $2.2 million in January to lay claim to a 6,000-acre ranch in Northern California's Siskiyou County...
South of the border, the cold wave brought a sudden end to unseasonably warm weather in the American West. In Great Falls, Mont., the temperature fell overnight from a high of 62 degrees to-10 degrees and then down to -34 degrees the next night. Over in Helena, the thermometer reading plummeted from 44 degrees to -6 degrees in just two hours. As far south as Valentine, Neb., a balmy high of 70 degrees turned to 0 degrees in ten hours...