Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they destroy the habitat of small mammals that shelter in forest undergrowth. These creatures eat and distribute mycorrhizal fungi, which grow among the rootlets of saplings and help the trees absorb water and nutrients. There may be enough spores of fungi in the soil after a clear-cut to start a second-growth forest, but a third crop is less likely to be successful, and it now seems possible that sustained-yield forests based on clear-cutting simply may not work...
...strafing missions are conducted over a neglected lighthouse. All in all, quite beautiful. Still, it's easy to see how Tom Watson was able to close with 65-65 to Jack Nicklaus' 65-66 in their famous staring match at the 1977 Open. Turnberry is a soft place to start...
...concern for the previous decade and propelled sales from less than $15 million in 1977 to more than $380 million in 1987. He engineered Vuitton's purchase of Veuve Clicquot champagne and Givenchy perfumes in March 1987, and last June agreed to acquire Givenchy fashions this fall. From the start, Chevalier and Racamier had trouble accepting the notion of a true merger of their companies. Each man continued to maintain a personal fiefdom, with separate corporate staffs, public relations departments and financial advisers. Then, last May, heavy trading in Moet Vuitton shares on the Paris Bourse signaled that the company...
...straightforward but unreal quality of the S-M images is there again in his portrait of Ken Moody and Robert Sherman, 1984 -- two hairless heads, one black, one white, an uncanny feeling built from blunt facts. After a while, even the taut compositions of Mapplethorpe's portraits start to look like another form of bondage...
Couples considered the day an auspicious start toward the risky business of living together happily ever after. Manfred Kies and Regine Kubos, two West Berliners, outdid 55,000 other West German couples who exchanged vows on the day by adding on a few pieces of eight to go with their wedding attire. They were married in Blindheim, a village 20 miles northwest of Augsburg, which has the postal zip code of 8888. The ceremony was scheduled for precisely 88 min. past 8 a.m. on, of course, 8-8-88. Ten thousand philatelists also swarmed into Blindheim to collect a rare...