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Just above town are a couple of 10,000-ft. peaks: Crown Butte, which is a spectacular, striated pillar, and Henderson, a hulk that bears old scars from open-pit mining. Digging petered out here in the 1950s -- as it happened, only a few feet short of the mother lode. Underneath Henderson, recent exploration has shown, are ore deposits said to be worth $1 billion. It is here that Noranda's subsidiary Crown Butte is pushing hard to start up a large 24-hour- a-day gold mine and processing mill. Workings would be underground and no cyanide would...
...Pain to get something to eat as the officer waited outside. When he emerged to begin a security check of the Holyoke Arcade, he was ambushed by The Crimson. One reporter approached him from the front, another appeared from behind. The photographer, who had hidden behind a pillar and worried about whether he could focus a night picture, jumped in front of lawyer and started snapping pictures...
...novel's hero, Mark-Alem, is a member of an elite family within an imagined later-day Ottoman Empire. As a Quprili, he is given the special opportunity of working at the secret Palace of Dreams, known to all as the Tabir Sarrail. The palace functions as a "pillar of the state." Here the dreams of all of the citizens of the empire are brought and interpreted, in the hopes of finding within them a "signal [sent] to the earth" by Allah. Omens in the forms of dreams are sought because "the interpretation of that dream, fallen like a stray...
...magazine publishers are kids trying to act cool--not masterminds propagating evil on the scale of Sodom and Gomorrah. And if the good-natured guys in Eliot would never dream of doing what they print as "entertainment," maybe folks outside the Ivory Tower will take Inside Edge with a pillar of salt...
...Murray was really a pillar of strength and got the whole thing going," he says...