Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan gala was meant to showcase an exhibition of mountain photographs, but the stunning scenery hanging on the walls at the International Center of Photography last week was fully matched by the scenery hanging out together at the party. Robert Redford, 46, who still turns an eye, was the host of the $250-a-head benefit. Also present were three of the camera's best friends: Brooke Shields, 18, Cheryl Tiegs, 36, and Christie Brinkley, 28. Compared with Tiegs in a floor-length chinchilla and Brinkley in black leather, Shields in a modest pattern-made dress looked like...
...avert a similar calamity in arrow-bamboo regions, where a sizable portion of the wild pandas dwell, Chinese scientists, aided by the World Wildlife Fund, are undertaking emergency measures. One tactic: leaving roasted pork chops and goat meat on the mountain slopes in hopes that the pandas will turn from their normal vegetarian diet. Explained Schaller: "They'll eat meat if they can get it easily." The scientists are also using meat to lure pandas to lower-lying regions where other types of bamboo may be available...
...rate of 60 a minute. For several terrible hours, every second brought a flash of light from Syrian positions south and east of Tripoli, then a dull thump and a puff of smoke as the shells hit targets in the Baddawi refugee camp and the lower slopes of Turbul mountain north of the Lebanese city. Every so often a round strayed and hit Tripoli itself, crashing into a building or cratering a street...
White warns that "real lawyers eat fast food"-at their desks. Associates must often put in 60-hour weeks in order to keep up with the mountain of work. But even after seven or eight years of such drudgery ("like researching U.S. postal regulations ... or comparing the Delaware nonprofit corporation law with that of the other states"), there is only a slim chance of becoming a partner. To beat the odds, one need only be "the hardest-working, least-likely-to-screw-up, most anal, puritanical grind since Cotton Mather...
...district, which will take most of its communications out of the phone system. Even Salt Lake City's Mormon Church is getting into the act. Its private microwave link to Brigham Young University 45 miles distant in Provo, Utah, has replaced an AT&T system and is costing Mountain Bell $42,000 annually in lost revenues...