Word: mountainous
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...soccer team needs time to score, and the Brown squad will have its problems with no one forward conspicuous in the points department. The two possible exceptions are Stew Mountain and Darius Scott...
...closing the door on compromise in the air traffic dispute, Reagan has indicated that workers have no right to move the mountain of management on their own terms. He has forced a Faustian decision upon American labor--cooperate or take your chances. PATCO gambled and lost...
Known variously as "the Lion," "the Great Crocodile," "the Bull," "Son of the She Elephant," "the Great Mountain" and "the Inexplicable," King Sobhuza II, 82, became the leader of Swaziland the year Warren G. Harding moved into the White House. Last week, on the 60th anniversary of the old Lion's rule-the longest of any living monarch-he was feted by countrymen and visiting dignitaries. Heralded as much for his libido as his longevity, Sobhuza is said to have more than 100 wives and is well on his way to earning another moniker: "Father of His Country...
...backpacks." There is no lack of photographers to approach landscape with intense feeling, but the feelings are not of the same kind. What happened to the old sublimities? Lost with those who believed in them: such, at least, is the message conveyed by Robert Adams' From Lookout Mountain, Smog, No. 7,1970. It has some of the traditional ingredients: the high view, the extending valley. But tourists have changed the landscape forever, imposing on it their own cretinous expressionism: thanks to the aerosol can, their names (JOE, BILL) are writ large on the rocks, reversing the order of priorities...
Banc One, for example, was one of the first financial institutions to see the potential in bank credit cards. In 1966 McCoy persuaded giant Bank of America to extend its California-based BankAmericard to nationwide use and to let Banc One handle the mountain of paperwork. At first Bank of America dismissed the notion that an unknown outfit from Ohio's corn belt could act as a clearing house for a national credit card system. But McCoy persisted and eventually got the job. BankAmericard evolved into Visa, and Banc One today is the third largest credit card processor...