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...Clunies-Ross established coconut plantations....
...From a remote lookout, I watched the world swim into view, the rays of the sun lighting the backs of dark hills like smooth-flanked whales riding in seas of cloud....
...A turtle fishery was established and native flora was cleared to make way for a coconut plantation....
...“The bond market is the most important market in the world,” says Ray Dalio, the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater. “It is the backbone of all other markets.”...
...The sun’s rays at nearly 4km above sea level were hot and prickly on the skin....
...The Placencia Peninsula is the main centre for new luxury small-scale resorts such as Falah del Mar, where studios start at $190,000, says Ray Withers, chief executive of Property Frontiers....
...Turtles and sharks, scorpionfish and moray eels, rays of all sizes and dozens of technicolour fish were par for the course. And so it went, blissfully....
...Andrews, however, was used to the challenges; his father was a plantation owner on New Britain....
...When talking of art cinema one of course thinks of Satyajit Ray and his brand of careful, humanist neorealism in the 1950s and 1960s, but India has seen fine “parallel cinema” (or alternative film-making...
...There are the remains of millions of molluscs and craters where rays have ground up dust....
...As the first rays of the sun touched the boats in Llançà’s little harbour, I reflected on last night’s 30-course experience of Paco Pérez’s sometimes wildly inventive avant-garde cuisine....
...There are crabs, gar, rays, mullet and, says Adams, two redfish at 10 o’clock. They charge the fly on the first cast, but do not take....
...This was, of course, the Canary Islands – but not the sort of Canarian experience that will be familiar to most holidaymakers, who come to these islands to catch a few rays....
...New plantations are being made and managed....
...Howler monkeys, waking up as the first rays of sun light up the trees....
...My hotel is set a little way apart from the city itself, about 20 minutes from West Lake, past tea plantations and into the surrounding hills....
...Famous for its deep walls, manta ray encounters and brilliantly coloured soft corals, this is adventurous diving within a 13,000 hectare marine park....
...Groups of up to 14 will be taken in submarines (which appear to be made of Lego but, thankfully, aren’t) through a million-litre tank containing 50 species of sharks, rays and fish....
...In some cases, such as the situation of Plantation Place, the City of London office complex, talks have been going for about two years and are still deadlocked....
...Fresh herring sailed in and salt herring sailed out, often to West Indian sugar plantations where salt herring had become a staple of the slave diet....
...A further 350 died building the Cau Ma Thien Lanh bridge near the So Ray plantation – a steep hike through dense rainforest to an area “cleared for cultivation purposes and grinding down prisoners”, reads...
...Foster Creppel owns the last pre-civil war plantation in the deep delta of the American south. He fears even this will be gone in 50 years....
...As well as birders, the complex amid the palm oil plantations attracts honeymoon couples and divers keen to explore second world war shipwrecks and the unspoiled coral reefs....
...Fiss, whose love of exotic materials emerged from his collection of antiques, uses only by-product bone, parchment and horn, while the wood is sourced from non-endangered plantations....
...Concessional import duty was provided to specified machinery for use in the plantation sector in the year 2003. This exemption is to lapse in July 2010....
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