For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

For one thing, there wasn't going to be any ceremony at all this year.

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

For the year as a whole, retail sales of TV sets probably came to 5.8 million against 5.7 million in 1959 ; ;

For the school year, 1959-1960, the Prince Edward County ( Virginia ) Board of Supervisors voted not to provide funds for public education, and the school board therefore could provide no public education -- for white or Negro children.

For medical research he asked a 20 million dollar a year increase, from 30 to 50 millions, in matching grants for building research facilities.

For hotels with 1000 rooms, the increased license fee would mean an expense of $5000 a year, Goodis said.

For the year to date, sales of the company's farm equipment dealers still lag about 5% behind 1960.

For example, farm equipment shipments of International Harvester in August climbed about 5% above a year earlier, Mr. Keeler reports.

For nearly a year, they have been receiving counseling, separately and together, in an effort to understand and overcome the antagonisms which had given rise to the possibility of divorce.

For the year, the road earned 133 per cent of its interest costs, against 121 per cent in the preceding period.

For a year the boy had lived in the bush in a boxcar.

For example, " biweekly " can mean " fortnightly " ( once every two weeks – 26 times a year ), or " twice a week " ( 104 times a year ).

For most of the year, aardwolves spend time in shared territories consisting of up to a dozen dens, which are occupied for six weeks at a time.

For nine months of the year the ground is covered with snow, and the frozen rivers become navigable roads.

For the next five years, Anne spent no more than five or six weeks a year with her family, during holidays at Christmas and in June.

For the following year the Duke proposed a campaign along the valley of the River Moselle to carry the war deep into France.

For many merchants, Boxing Day has become the day of the year with the greatest revenue.

For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

For a single year in 1949, the team performed in an all-yellow scheme with blue markings.

For the reprint editions, the year of the data is in parentheses.

For example, the creation of argon fluorohydride ( HArF ), a marginally stable compound of argon with fluorine and hydrogen, was reported by researchers at the University of Helsinki in 2000.

For example, if an author is paid a modest advance of $ 2000. 00, and their royalty rate is 10 % of a book priced at $ 20. 00-that is, $ 2. 00 per book-the book will need to sell 1000 copies before any further payment will be made.

For example, an array of 10 integer variables, with indices 0 through 9, may be stored as 10 words at memory addresses 2000, 2004, 2008, … 2036, so that the element with index i has the address 2000 + 4 × i.

For example, medicinal plants have been known in the Mesopotamia at least around 2000 BC.

For this comment, a French court fined her 30, 000 francs in June 2000.

For about three decades immediately before 1902 it was negative, reaching − 6. 64 s. Then it increased to + 63. 83 s at 2000.

For his exhibition in Jerusalem in 2000, in addition to the glass pieces, he had enormous blocks of transparent ice brought in from an Alaskan artesian well and formed a wall, echoing the stones of the nearby Citadel.

Montreal singer Nancy Martinez's 1986 single " For Tonight " would become the first Canadian freestyle single to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while the Montreal girl group 11: 30 reached the Canadian chart with " Ole Ole " in 2000.

For example fluorescent pigs have been bred in the US in 2000, in Korea in 2002, in Taiwan in 2006, in China in 2008 and Japan in 2009.

Relatively small modifications were introduced in the Firearms Act, 1964, the Firearms ( Proofing ) Act, 1968, the Firearms Act, 1971, the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act, 1990, the Firearms ( Temporary Provisions ) Act, 1998 and the Firearms ( Firearm Certificates For Non-Residents ) Act, 2000.

For example, the Rogalin Landscape Park is famous for about 2000 monumental oak trees growing on the flood plain of the river Warta, among numerous ox-bow lakes.

For example, according to Israeli journalist Yair Sheleg, in August 2000, German historian Hans Mommsen called it " a most trivial book, which appeals to easily aroused anti-Semitic prejudices.

It was honored with the President's Award in 2000 by All American Rose Selections, Inc., which is presented to one public garden in the United States each year for superior rose maintenance and display: “ For contributing to the public interest in rose growing through its efforts in maintaining an outstanding public rose garden .”

For example, 1600 and 2000 were leap years, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not.

For example, in the retail sector, it is not uncommon to see deployments of 2000 to 5000 locations to communicate transaction data to a headquarters data center.

For example, the Beautiful music format that developed into today's Easy listening and Soft rock formats is nearly extinct due to a lack of interest from younger generations, whereas classic rock has become popular over the last 20 years or so and Jack FM has arisen only since 2000 or so.

In 2000, Encore une fois, si vous le permettez ( For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again ) won a Chalmers Award and a Dora Mavor Moore Award.

For example, Konami was forced to remove all references to cigarettes in the 2000 Game Boy Color game Metal Gear Solid ( although the previous NES version of Metal Gear and the subsequent GameCube game Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes both included such references, as did Wii title MadWorld ), and maiming and blood were removed from the Nintendo 64 port of Cruis ' n USA.

* For UT: at 1 January 2000, ΔT (= TT − UT ) was + 63. 83 s ; hence the correction for the clock time UT = TT − ΔT of the conjunction is:

For this work, Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000.

For example, as of May 2000, per DSM-IV-TR, " Because some cases of Sexual Sadism may not involve harm to a victim ( e. g., inflicting humiliation on a consenting partner ), the wording for sexual sadism involves a hybrid of the DSM-III-R and DSM-IV wording ( i. e., “ the person has acted on these urges with a non-consenting person, or the urges, sexual fantasies, or behaviors cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty ”)".

* 1999 – 2000: " For Those Who Think Young "/" The Joy of Pepsi-Cola " ( commercial with Britney Spears / commercial with Mary J. Blige )

For over 2000 years this intermarrying perpetuated an incestuous family tree culminating the last of the Jesus line, a mentally handicapped child, in whom the Grail guardians place their hopes.