Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that familiar territory can suddenly seem like a forbidding landscape. Love hurts, love haunts, love heals in these songs. The title cut suggests an amusement-park romp but ends with the kind of lyric reflection that is perfectly plainspoken and impossible to shake: "The house is haunted and the ride gets rough/ And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above/ If you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love." Raymond Carver, take a turn around the floor with Chuck Berry...
Polly (Sheila McCarthy) is a self-described "unsuccessful career woman" who works part-time as a girl Friday for a temp agency. Her lack of success is really a lack of motivation. She would much rather ride her bike around Toronto taking pictures...
...rally's first phase, investors put their money in stocks based on their intrinsic value, which was backed by corporate profits and dividends. But in the later stages, the betting has become almost purely speculative, as investors pour cash into the market in fear of missing the free ride. At this point, many stock prices have risen beyond any connection with the real performance of their underlying companies, many experts believe. "There are more extreme valuations now than there were in 1929," says Louis Holland, a partner in Hahn Holland & Grossman, a Chicago money-management firm...
...Chicken power," says Ron Oest, exulting in his chicken house in northern New Mexico. "That's what keeps our winter water supply from freezing. See, they roost right under the tank." Up on the roost, two dozen hens ride out the winter, unwittingly warming a thousand gallons of mountain stream water stored in the black tank that bellies down from the ceiling. It is an efficient use of passive poultry energy, harnessed by a resourceful man who supports his family handsomely on $5,000 a year...
Mubarak, accompanied by French Premier Jacques Chirac, will descend polished red granite steps at Tahrir Square for the inaugural ride. Inside the station, walls of cream-colored marble form the backdrop to ceramic designs depicting ancient Egyptian scenes. Replicas of pharaonic statues are displayed in glass cases, adding local luster to what French Engineer Alain Chenebier proudly calls "one of the most beautiful subway systems ever...