Word: customs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late-night speaker who usually receives up to $10,000 for public appearances will speak for free at the Forum, as is the custom for the prestigious speakers series...
...African bush, notes Morrow, is an "unforgiving place. The lame and the careless are taken down quickly." Morrow learned the cautious local custom: while walking in the bush, warn the animals of your approach; it is when they are surprised that they tend to attack. When out alone, Morrow took to bellowing old Irish songs to alert whichever beasts might be lurking nearby. One day he headed out for some fishing in the Aberdare Mountains. "I went down the game trail to a trout stream with my fly rod in hand, singing like the Clancy Brothers," recalls Morrow...
...unique ecological compactness. Nothing is wasted. First the lion dines, and then the hyena, and then the vulture, then the lesser specialists, insects and the like, until the carcass is picked utterly clean, and what is left, bones and horns, subside into the grass. It has been an African custom to take the dead out into the open and leave them unceremoniously for the hyenas...
...speed at which Cox was bicycling, the apparent lack of any other vehicle's interference with his travel, the angle at which Cox's head hit the tree, and the dean's not wearing a helmet, as was his custom, are among the pieces of evidence that point to suicide, detectives said. CORNELL...
...industrial zone just outside the capital city, joint ventures between Spanish and foreign firms are mushrooming. Perhaps the most impressive project is a $200 million plant being built by a partnership of AT&T and Spain's Telefonica. The factory will soon begin producing 3,000 highly complex custom-made electronic microchips a week for export. AT&T was lured in part by the Spanish government's aid, which included a $74 million cash subsidy, a $75 million loan and 400 acres of land...