Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles. Drive north along Highway 13 in Colorado, away from the bustle and lights of a coal town like Craig, and you quickly find yourself in a land of buttes and canyons and endless sky, with gophers and prairie dogs scampering across the two-lane road and magpies fluttering overhead. Go down into southeastern Utah and head toward Moab. Take a right at the entrance to Canyonlands National Park and proceed along the paved road until it turns into a red clay rut. You are going along at 30 miles an hour, then 20, then 15. The road dips...
They met on a cold, damp Venetian morning, the wild ducks flying overhead. The hunter was 49, married, famous. The girl was 18, a dark Leonardesque virgin. "I love you more than the moon and the sky," he would later write her. "Daughter, how complicated can life be?" Very, she would answer: "I tried to remain on the razor's edge, because had I asked, you would have thrown yourself from a wall for me." Ernest Hemingway did not go quite that far to prove his love for young Adriana Ivancich, but he did write her some...
...into their hotel a few yards away (planted on Seattle's famous "airport strip"), the Harriers got a chance to survey the course first-hand from their scenic vantage point, watching their opponents struggle through the soaked fairways of the Tyee Golf Course as Braniff departures and arrivals whizzed overhead...
...suggestion that the University move forward into the genetic engineering business. Now, at last, we have a chance to complete the rout, begun in my own student days at Harvard, of comparative literature, fine arts, religion and all the other disciplines that cannot pay their own way with the overhead on federal grants and with profitable patents. Now, at last, we can be assured of continuing support for the many University administrators--in the style to which they have grown accustomed. Now, at last, this profitable enterprise will free the hard-pressed alumni, many with children to send to college...
Goldie Hawn, when interrupted during an interview in Florida by a deafening overhead roar that the questioner identified as a B-52: "Oh, did Ronald Reagan already get in? I'm supporting Carter because I don't want...