Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North of San Francisco, the Russian River rose to inundate the surrounding resorts and country houses as well as the tiny town of Guerneville. Said Guerneville Resident Mary Cervantes: "We've lost everything." Spreading out from California, the storms cut a haphazard trail of havoc. Mudslides that cut the main auto routes through the High Sierras stranded thousands of gamblers in Reno. In Utah rain deluged the low-lying areas and snows blanketed the mountains...
...Royal Ballet production is currently touring North and South America, and Fonteyn agreed to do two Miami performances because it was not far from her home in Panama. Her initial entrance prompted enthusiastic applause from the house, and there was awe onstage as well. In the middle of the "Rose Adagio," Sherilyn Kennedy, who danced Aurora, curtsied with fitting grace and unusual reverence, presenting the past and forever queen of dance with four pink roses...
...there but also their suppliers and much of the real estate industry. Says Thurow: "When the oil industry goes down, the whole infrastructure starts to fall in value." The evidence is abundant. The accounting firm of Price Waterhouse reported last week that the number of Houston businesses declaring bankruptcy rose 33% last year...
Simon's sequel, A Wider World, begins on the day of her elementary-school graduation, a rite of passage that, she remembers tartly, called for "light rejoicing." Mother buys her a rose; Father gives her the withering news that she can go to high school for only one year of secretarial courses. The 13- year-old's response introduces the principal motif of the book, if not the dominant theme of her life: "Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will...
...past, Harvard rents have not quite kept up with the general market. While Cambridge-area rents climbed an average of 12 percent last year, rent on university-owned residences rose only 5 percent on average, Kossan said...