Word: opener
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Under common law, the states own the portion of the beaches that lies between low and high water marks; the so-called "wet sand" is thus open to anyone. But it has never been made clear whether a person has the right to cross private property to gain access to that public land. In fact, some states grant vested rights in the beaches to the localities, which also claim authority to enforce restrictions on bathing by virtue of their police power. As a consequence, the law varies enormously from state to state and the rights of the public remain...
...Rehm Jr. defends his community's bathing restrictions on the ground that they are necessary to prevent Deal from turning into "another Coney Island." Officials in Washington, D.C., note that a few states and towns have withdrawn applications for federal money to help buy beachfront property under the "Open Space" program. Reason: all such beaches must be open to the public...
...their food, since their canines prevent lateral motion of the jaws. The Yale investigators also decided that Rama's molars had emerged one after another, as in man, rather than almost simultaneously, as in apes. From this evidence they drew two important conclusions: 1) Rama probably ventured into open country to forage for tougher foods than were available to apes ("the lotus eaters of the primates"), who stayed behind in the forests; and 2) he matured more slowly than apes, and more as human youngsters do, thus gaining valuable additional time to learn more skills during childhood...
Griffin prefers to be conversational, a listener rather than a doer. "My most important task is to open people up verbally and extract information from them," he says. "I sit there as the middleman between guest and audience, asking questions I think the viewers would ask if they were in my place." While Carson is content to operate from New York City studios, with only occasional expeditions to the West Coast, Griffin insists that he will continue to get out of the studio and out of New York. "We want to show the viewer other parts of the world than...
...infancy, but its convenience is beginning to catch the public's fancy. After 15 months of operations, Ticketron, the bigger of the two systems, has terminals in more than 300 locations from coast to coast. It offers seats to a wide variety of entertainment, including the U.S. Open Tennis matches in Forest Hills, N.Y., the Philadelphia Folk Festival in Old Pool Farm, Pa., the home games of six major-league baseball teams and most events at Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden. According to President John Quinn Jr., T.R.S. now sells 1,000,000 tickets a month...