Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marvel of efficiency, the bicycle is also cheap, handy, nimble. It can sprint like a cat, then stop on a dime and give you nine cents change. It is easy to ride and speedy enough for any sane short-distance traveler. In the typical bumper-to-bumper city creepathon the bike can outrun a Porsche...
Even for the wild market of 1987, it was a hair-raising ride. Many of the forces driving Gap stock down affected other retailers as well: sluggish August sales, sharper competition and growing ambivalence among shoppers. But such factors were not enough to account for the rout of Gap stock. Some problems were uniquely its own -- just as its startling success had been over the previous four years...
Markham, reports Lovell, was a high-fashion beauty who strode about three continents in slacks. She was tough and unusually strong and could ride anything. More practically, she understood horses. In the '20s and again in the '50s and '60s, she was the pre-eminent race trainer in East Africa. She flew her own bush-taxi service for only a few years, in the '30s, but was a & fearless pilot who was the first to scout elephants commercially from the air, over country where a forced landing generally meant death. In 1936 she became the first person to fly solo...
...does, Reagan will undoubtedly take his visitor to Rancho del Cielo, the President's ranch in the mountains above Santa Barbara, perhaps for Thanksgiving. Reagan would love to show Gorbachev the sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean and inland valleys. (One problem: Can the Soviet leader ride a horse, and would he be willing to try? Nobody in the U.S. professes to know.) Reagan has mused in the past about showing a Soviet leader middle-class American homes, schools, churches, possibly a high-tech factory; the President appears to think the picture of capitalist prosperity would impress even so dedicated...
...after suffering a pair of hefty setbacks, the Crimson seemed unphased. In fact, the team broke into song on the bus ride home...