Word: scenic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Never known for its scenic beauty, recent films like "Dawn of the Living Dead" and back-home segments of "Deerhunter," location in Pittsburgh, have done little to enhance its reputation. The "Smoky City" has been a hard image for Pittsburgh to shed...
Tumbling out of the plane and into their hotel a few yards away (planted on Seattle's famous "airport strip"), the Harriers got a chance to survey the course first-hand from their scenic vantage point, watching their opponents struggle through the soaked fairways of the Tyee Golf Course as Braniff departures and arrivals whizzed overhead...
...this is an economy which had managed to maintain a high annual growth rate of nearly five per cent throughout the 1960s. Under Manley's system of "land reform," production of agricultural goods declined dramatically, and farm exports plummeted. Tourists, who had flocked to Jamaica's scenic north coast in droves despite widespread instances of political violence--for which Manley's followers must be held partly to blame--left in a stampede after Manley's election, even though, not surprisingly, the violence had subsided. Foreign and domestic capital, which Manley so relentlessly insulted in his harangues against "imperialism" virtually vanished...
...turned out, Logan was so far ahead of the pack, he could have afforded to take a "scenic" route Saturday...
...long-distance travelers, the business people, tourists, college students ask the strangest questions. Is this the Delaware Water Gap? (No, that scenic stretch where the river slices through Kittatinny Mountain is more than 100 miles upstream.) Am I in Washington, D.C.? What state is Delaware the capital...