Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since 1987, to 800,000. On the busiest routes through the canyon, an aircraft streaks by about once every 90 seconds, which has created a noise level that harasses wildlife and threatens fragile cliff formations. Congress has restricted the flyover areas to about half the canyon, but the National Park Service and the Federal Aviation Administration are devising regulations to limit noise and air traffic even further...
...busy South Rim, where 7,000 vehicles a day compete for 1,500 parking spaces, rangers are trying to discourage autos. Businessman Max Biegert has revived the Grand Canyon Railway, which last year trundled 100,000 passengers to the rim from the main highway 65 miles away. A rail spur under development will connect with shuttle buses that now carry visitors along the rim. Eventually a hefty fee may be imposed on motorists who insist on bringing their cars into the park...
...Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, which is bursting at the seams from the region's population boom, rangers have closed down a ski area and dismantled three dams to restore the land for elk and sheep grazing. To protect the alpine terrain above the timberline, rangers have closed off a favorite breeding haunt of the endangered bighorn sheep near Crater Lake...
...opening scene of "The Client" shows Mark (Brad Renfro) teaching his eight-year-old brother Ricky (David Speck) how to smoke behind a trailer-park outside Memphis. Only a few smokes later, Mark has a chance encounter with the suicidal lawyer, Jerome Clifford (Walter Olkewicz), that sweeps his family into a plot of Mafia intrigue, federal investigation, and a legal battle who outcome may determine the family's future. Sound like a compelling beginning...
...endure the danger and hardship he tackles on his photography assignments. She doesn't have to be holed up in some fashion salon or at the editor's desk of a fashion magazine. She's an independent gal who will prove to Jeff that even though she is from Park Avenue and knows the ritziest people in town (and could get him fashion shoots or portrait opportunities by the dozen in the City), she can weather anything...