Word: nest
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...Washington. As Governor, his advisers say, he was struck by the experiences of local governments in places like Galveston County that had allowed their employees to opt out of government retirement plans and invest the proceeds in private funds--yielding legends of courthouse janitors retiring with $750,000 nest eggs. As Bush planned his first presidential campaign, he brought in experts to brief him on how privatization had worked in places like Chile, and even Sweden--surely one of the rare instances of a Republican taking the lead from a country known for a near socialist welfare system...
...revamp lighting. "The chandelier is this luxurious, celebratory lighting fixture," says Nadja Swarovski, 34, who runs communications for the firm. "We challenged designers to reinvent it for today." Twenty-seven of them accepted the dare, and last month seven of the collection's 17 pieces?including Yves B?har's Nest, above, a glowing cyclone suspended by strands of crystal, and Matali Crasset's Plexiglas Sky?were displayed at the Art Basel fair in Miami. All the fixtures are for sale through Swarovski. Karl Lagerfeld already bought one, though at $7,000 and up, the prices cast their own shadow...
...chandelier is this luxurious, celebratory lighting fixture," says Nadja Swarovski, 34, who runs communications for the firm. "We challenged designers to reinvent it for today." Twenty-seven of them accepted the dare, and last month seven of the collection's 17 pieces - including Yves Béhar's Nest, above, a glowing cyclone suspended by strands of crystal, and Matali Crasset's Plexiglas Sky - were displayed at the Art Basel fair in Miami. All the fixtures are for sale through Swarovski. Karl Lagerfeld already bought one, though at $7,000 and up, the prices cast their own shadow...
...says she documented separate groups of East and West African chimpanzee subspecies and what she calls the "mystery ape." The larger animal had a much flatter face and straight-across brow like gorillas and turned gray early in life. Females lacked chimps' genital swelling. Two or three would nest on the ground, with others low in nearby branches. They made a distinct vocalization like a howl and were louder when the full moon rose and set. "The unique characteristics they exhibit just don't fit into the other groups of great apes," says Williams. The apes, she argues, could...
When a ritzy Manhattan apartment building removed the nest of a red-tailed hawk, Pale Male, and his mate from a window cornice, angry protests ensued. Leading the charge: Mary Tyler Moore, the building's most famous resident. After much squawking, a compromise was reached. The hawks wil be allowed to rebuild. No mortgage necessary...