Word: tree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employ PEN for only legal purposes before they are allowed access to the system. "We expect to get a lot of the same questions we're getting now," says Assistant City Manager Lynne Barrette. " 'What's the status of a particular issue? To whom do I complain about the tree trimming on my street?' -- only via the computer...
...mere $1,380, the copter will take four people on a tour, complete with a champagne picnic on windswept Lauhala Point and a view right into the maw of the active volcano Kilauea. This jaunt is not for the faint of heart or weak of knee. When the tree line below suddenly drops away, leaving the swaying copter to swoop deep into an amphitheater of waterfalls, even the rush of peaceable New Age music injected through the passenger headphones may fail to tranquilize a white-knuckle flyer...
...turkey blinds he has fashioned of logs and brush, Baker settles in to wait. He leans against a persimmon tree, and with as little motion as possible he reads and turns the pages of a State Department briefing . book stamped SECRET. Methodically, Baker underlines almost every sentence. "It's how I learn," he explains. "That and taking almost verbatim notes when someone is briefing me. 'Proper preparation prevents poor performance': one of my father's maxims. That's how you gain control. I'm on Africa now," he says. "We'll pick up and move when...
American Indians face problems of identity because they are often not recognized as a minority, says Eric Fox Tree, who is president of American Indians at Harvard...
...spirit of glasnost is infusing the Soviet press, and its new, muckraking style of journalism already has some officials up a tree. When the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta published a report last year that meat producers were breaking the law by putting protein additives and other impurities in their sausage, the paper was promptly sued by a group of Moscow meatpackers, who demanded a retraction...