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 2000 this means servicing ( A ) the protection requirements of a watershed producing at least 200 million acre-feet of water each year, ( B ) recreation and wildlife resources used each year by 635 million visitors, ( C ) a timber resource supporting an annual cut of 21 billion board feet, and ( D ) 60 million acres of rangelands.

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 this reason, Armenia was virtually unaffected by the Liquidity crisis of September 2008.

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 Hurricane Ike in 2008, Selig mandated that the Astros play two home games against the Chicago Cubs in his hometown of Milwaukee despite proximity to the visiting Cubs.

For example, during the eight-year period ending in 2008, despite overall growth in music sales and one anomalous year of increase, major-label CD sales declined overall by 20 %.

For that reason, the 2008 season may be regarded as the last hurrah of the Tribune years.

For instance, the jersey numbers of inductees Aikman ( 8 ), Staubach ( 12 ), Hayes and Smith ( 22 ), Irvin ( 88 ), and Lilly ( 74 ) were not worn during the 2008 season.

For 2008, the team dropped the black alternate jerseys in favor of a throwback uniform to commemorate the franchise's 75th anniversary.

For example, during the 2008 flooding, Credit Island in the city's southwest corner remained closed for 5½ months while crews worked on cleaning up damage and removing river debris.

For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

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For example, according to a 2008 study by Ipsos, the number of British fantasy sports players aged 16 – 64 is estimated to range between 5. 5 and 7. 5 million.

For example, on September 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve Board authorized an $ 85 billion loan to stave off the bankruptcy of international insurance giant American International Group ( AIG ).

For example, in England, the England Hockey reports that as of the 2008 – 09 season there were 2488 registered men's teams, 1969 women's teams, 1042 boys ' teams, 966 girls ' teams and 274 mixed teams.

They have entered two plays into the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D. C .. Their 2007 show, For Boston, won " Best Comedy ", and their second show, The Sticking Place, won " Best Overall " in 2008.

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.

In Britney: For the Record, Britney's father Jamie Spears was making her cheese grits on the morning of the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.

For example, in January – September 2008, the Credit Suisse / Tremont Hedge Fund Index was down 9. 87 %.

For his service, Prince Harry was decorated with the Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan by his aunt, the Princess Royal, at the Combermere Barracks in May 2008.

For example, in 2007 RFC 3700 was an Internet Standard — STD 1 — and in May 2008 it was replaced with RFC 5000, so RFC 3700 changed to Historic status, and STD 1 is RFC 5000.

It ranked 96 in Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2006 and in October 2008, IKEA Canada LP was named one of " Canada's Top 100 Employers " by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine.

For the 2008 season, the Ranger III carried visitors to / from Windigo on several occasions, this proved to be a failure and was discontinued after 4 trips due to lack of interest and extremely long crossing times.

For example, when a vote on behalf of a tariff is traded by a congressman for a vote from another congressman on behalf of an agricultural subsidy to ensure that both acts will gain a majority and pass through the legislature, logrolling occurs ( Shughart 2008 ).

For three days starting 21 March 2008, they revisited each dwelling and counted the inhabitants.

For example, Christmas Day fell on Saturday in 2004, Sunday in 2005, Monday in 2006 and Tuesday in 2007 but then " leapt " over Wednesday to fall on a Thursday in 2008.

For a long time, Mexico has been one of the largest contributors to the United Nations regular budget, in 2008 over 40 million dollars were given to the organization.