Word: upon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inevitably, some of the credit falls not upon the astronauts who make the trip or the engineers who make it possible, but on the politicians who give a green light to the whole thing...
Time's management was called upon to explain its strategy last Friday, when more than 1,000 shareholders jammed into the grand ballroom of Manhattan's New York Hilton & Towers for the company's annual meeting. The stockholders, many of them Time employees, were less confrontational in their questioning than had been expected and indeed several times warmly applauded the Time management. Even so, several criticized the Time-Warner deal because shareholders were not asked to approve...
...other wilder beasts as Toad's parade advanced. Toad surveyed the line of march with a jump of pleasure. En passant with his olive-wood walking stick, he poked cannonballs of elephant dung and judged how long ago the beasts had passed. Now and then they came upon Samburu tending herds of high-humped Boran cattle. But mostly they walked in solitude. Toad savored the wild walker's joys -- the peace of utter remoteness, the little thrill of vulnerability and self-testing...
...pointing the march back into the mountains, on steep, thickly wooded tracks, thirsty and quarrelsome, they came upon an emerald pool in the forest, a sweet, shaded secret. Toad drank water for half an hour without stopping. That night they slaughtered a goat and feasted. Lutupen hung the remaining goat meat in a tree above him as he slept curled up on a flat rock, and in the morning Toad found leopard tracks around the camp...
There were no hard feelings. Mr. Funnel and Istill run into each other upon occasions. I keepmy ears protected...