Word: shells
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Boston offers a similar experience with the annual Fourth of July concert at the Hatch Shell, also known as the Esplanade. Throngs congregate on the lawn with their ice chests and settle in, anxiously awaiting the climactic "The 1812 Overture" which always ends the concert and is the cue for the fireworks to begin. Many of the radio stations in the Boston area broadcast the show so if you can't make it you can at least listen to it. And you can see some of the fireworks from Weeks Bridge...
Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra concert at Hatch Shell. Followed by fireworks at approximately...
...Showtime), home-shopping networks (from which cable operators get a portion of the sales income) and pay-per-view movies. One of the biggest growth areas is adult-movie channels -- a lucrative business, since the cable operator typically can keep 70% or more of the $4 to $5 customers shell out for an evening of soft-core...
...with the digging site secured and under guard, Alva and a team of archaeologists and workers located tombs that had been sealed off since their occupants were buried. He began what would stretch into years of patiently peeling away layers of debris and removing the delicate objects of metal, shell and stone that gradually unraveled the mysteries surrounding the lost culture. Pre-Columbian expert Christopher Donnan, of the University of California, Los Angeles, joined the project: photographs of tomb objects were made and sent for comparative analysis to UCLA's Fowler Museum, which has more than 135,000 pictures...
...well as to aggressive rivals like money-market funds that offer their own checking accounts, commercial banks nearly doubled their service charges between 1985 and 1992, according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG), a Washington-based consumer lobby. Even the victims of bad checks must now routinely shell out fees for the pain of having been bilked...