On a good day the river would be tinged scarlet as far north as Rush Street, and nobody paid much notice.
Recently, hip denizens have been flocking to the districts along both banks of the River Arno, where new osterias (a casual eatery), restaurants and rooftop bars with views of the river and cityscape attract a good-looking crowd.
The practice of inviting guests to sit in the House Gallery is a tradition dating back to 1982 when president Ronald Reagan recognized Lenny Skutnick -- a good Samaritan who pulled a survivor out of the frozen Potomac River in Washington after an Air Florida plane crashed into the 14th Street Bridge.
David Roche's analysis of deflationary pressure on world markets brought about by China's seemingly endless pool of cheap manufacturing labor is a good one (" Tributary to the river of deflation, " Sept. 16).
As I write, the French air force is bombing militant positions and arms dumps on the northern edge of the Tegharghar, around the village of Tessalit, a beautiful little oasis located next to a river that floods every June and July, if the rains are good.
Hotel Skala is a good-value stay in the town of Zemun, a five-minute walk from the banks of the Danube river.
The sooner that you take care of these details, the sooner you can get to the important stuff: kayaking on the river, playing on the beach, reading a good book, enjoying a nice barbecue and listening to the squeals of joy at the sights of the first lightning bugs of the season.
But this is a wakeup call for us to realize that the old idea of the black father who works for the River Rouge Ford plant in Detroit - that was a good thing.
The further they are from the river banks, the lesser their chance of getting attacked, so the sandbars in the middle of the river fill up first, with the birds jostling for a good place.
The weather was excellent and it was most pleasurable to sit on deck with a good drink and watch history unfold while leisurely passing castles, churches, deep river gorges and numerous locks along the way.
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The farm backs onto the river Severn and lies in its meadows, so the fields receive a good watering every winter.
The Environment Agency said 80% of river flows were now above normal or higher, with reservoirs showing a good recovery and just 11 groundwater sites below normal water levels - and two "exceptionally low".
Broad and Anderson would no doubt have arrived at the ground thinking it was a good day to bowl, given largely overcast skies and the notorious swinging conditions beside the River Trent.
Now it is neat and prosperous, with several good hotels (though the guests are mainly aid workers, and a big new golf resort being built across the river seems heroically ambitious).
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