Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...migrant farm workers? By making far-sighted choices about who we work for and how we live, we can help to bring about the changes which must by made if we are to move beyond this time of crisis and create a permanently sustainable way of life. Sarah K. Highland...
Longshoreman Buck Helm, who spent four days in a tomb of I-880 concrete and steel, was in criticalstable condition at Highland General Hospital in Oakland with some slight improvement, hospital officials said...
...dramatically changed -- and improved -- from what viewers saw a generation ago. Gone are the sour cages full of frantic cats and the concrete tubs of thawing penguins. Instead the terrain is uncannily authentic, and animals are free to behave like, well, animals, not inmates. Here is a Himalayan highland full of red pandas, there a subtropical jungle where it rains indoors, eleven times a day. The effect is of an entire globe miraculously concentrated, the wild kingdom contained in downtown Chicago or the North Bronx. As American zoos are renovated and redesigned -- at a cost of more than a billion...
Here is a Himalayan highland full of red pandas, there a tropical jungle where it rains indoors eleven times a day. As American zoos are renovated and redesigned -- at a cost of more than a billion dollars since 1980 -- hosts of once jaded visitors, some even without children, are flooding through the gates. Inside they find education, entertainment and an urgent mission...
Club fees have jumped as well -- although nowhere near the staggering levels paid in golf-crazy Japan (the most expensive: $2.5 million for the Koganei Country Club near Tokyo). In Highland Park, Ill., for example, initiation fees at the Exmoor Country Club have risen from $8,000 to $25,000 in the past five years. Memberships at some private clubs in the Los Angeles area cost more than $50,000, and $2,500 annually thereafter. But so far, golf aficionados are willing to pay those prices. Fore...