Word: perched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like me." The Reno production, his most lavish ever, cost $5 million, but the result is a show that would have made MGM's former titans jubilant. Herewith a fanciful account of how an old mogul might have reviewed proceedings with one of his great showmen from a perch in Shangri...
...violations of federal clean-air standards and a 1975 near disaster at Brown's Ferry nuclear power station in Alabama. Next, environmentalists sued to block the TVA from building the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River, which would wipe out the snail darter, a three-inch perch found only in those waters; that battle goes...
...Ling took a hit and passed it up to me. I declined, knowing I didn't need it tonight. It had been a long circuitous road to this perch atop the lofty pate, on the even of the biggest rally since the good old days. One or two of the old timers were still in our midst, keeping the Hibachi going, on into the third night. Some were here just because they were glad to get out of the dorm, or to miss Expos at 9 a.m. But the real heavies, who had remained since the '60s, who'd taken...
...Snake River Birds of Prey Natural Area, a 33-mile stretch of water bordered on both sides by high-rise towers of volcanic rock and sheer sandstone cliffs, and inhabited by the densest nesting population of raptors, or birds of prey, anywhere in the world. Golden eagles perch on inaccessible crags; prairie and peregrine falcons launch themselves from cliff faces and soar into the high, crystalline desert sky. Eleven other species of raptor, from the diminutive robin-size kestrel, or sparrow hawk, to the stocky great horned owl, make their homes and raise their offspring in the canyon...
From his high, sometimes lonely perch, the The Equitable's Coy Eklund Equitable's chief has a unique means of keeping in touch. He has set up three panels of employees-for women, minorites and middle managers-and he meets with each for a long afternoon six times a year answering questions and listening to proposals...