Word: mountainous
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...addition to his anachronistic "bwana, great white hunter" image, as Wildlife Federation Executive Vice President Jay Hair derisively puts it, environmentalists have substantive differences with Arnett. Under his auspices, the Fish and Wildlife Service openly talks of encouraging the hunting of wolves, mountain lions and other endangered predators. Arnett backs a bill that would open up millions of acres of national park land in Alaska to hunters. Like Watt, he has also promoted oil and gas drilling, grazing and lumbering in the national wildlife refuges...
...touch on the computer." Most of the software being sold today still goes into mainframe computers used by corporations or the Government. Banks, airlines and other major data processors last year purchased or leased $11.6 billion worth of programs, according to Input, a market-research firm in Mountain View, Calif...
Canon's factories are models of efficiency. Its main camera plant, situated 150 miles north of Tokyo at the base of snow-capped Azuma Mountain, is so automated that certain sections are staffed only by robots. Most of the factory's 2,000 employees, 60% of them women, work in the final assembly stage, where the tasks are more complicated. Canon's philosophy exhorts workers to avoid the "nine wastes," which include such sins as excess inventory or defects of any kind. The results are nearly picture perfect. Factory Boss Toshio Endo boasts that in a batch...
...Swiss Alps and makes his pitch: "Wilf. I want you to appoint me your official biographer." He tacitly offers his beautiful but dim-witted wife to seal the bargain. Barclay resists this awkwardly staged temptation, but he winds up indebted to Tucker all the same. During a fogbound mountain walk, the author leans on a guardrail that collapses. Pulled to safety by his nemesis, Barclay reluctantly admits: "It seems I owe you my life...
SENTENCED. Mary Evans, 27, Tennessee lawyer who helped her client, Convicted Felon William Timothy Kirk, escape from the Brushy Mountain state penitentiary in March 1983 and was captured with him 139 days later in Florida; to three years in prison; in Clinton, Tenn...