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Dianne adjusts Bridey's costume, and then she and Bridey and Veva go under the trestle and climb a steep incline that is strewn with boulders. The footing is slippery; they go cautiously and emerge on a concrete platform that is five feet from the railroad tracks...
...night around a fire inside the boma, Moses recounted some of his dreams. In one of them, he runs up a ravine with steep rock walls on three sides, pursued by a rhino. He claws at the rock walls, trying to escape, hanging by his fingertips. He wakes up screaming. In another dream, a lion is dragging Moses through deep grass. Moses desperately clutches at the grass with his fingers, but the grass comes up in clumps, and Moses is dragged...
...signed an agreement to get his baby back. Having beaten out some 50 other bidders, he will pay $230 million in cash and securities. And if Schwab's brokerage operations increase in value during the next eight years, BankAmerica will pocket 15% of that gain. The price is steep, but Schwab is delighted to regain his independence. Says he: "My entrepreneurial instincts will be excited one more time...
...Bend's owner, Buckeye Cellulose, a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, was asking a steep price. But the coveted land did not end up in the hands of a wealthy developer. It was bought instead by an environmental group, the Nature Conservancy, which in December paid $20 million for the property...
...particularly to the U.S. Now that source of growth is threatened by the decline in the value of the dollar, which makes European products much more expensive in the U.S. So far, such premier exporters as West Germany and France have weathered the dollar's fall, but a further steep drop could be devastating...