Jeremy Phillips' wife Fiona was sitting on the beach near Maunganui Bluff in the north of the country when her husband slipped off his boogie board and disappeared into the sea.
He thinks the mayor's threat to shut up shop may be just a bluff in an attempt to wrest more money from the state, which is busy with another racing-industry crisis.
His successor will face the dilemma of whether to shut off the Carlsbad irrigators to make sure that enough water can flow down to the Red Bluff reservoir in Texas.
Early the next morning in Bluff, Utah, we meet our tour guide, archaeologist Vaughn Hadenfeldt.
Mr Walker added the group decided to "call everyone's bluff" and call in PWC in a attempt to rekindle negotiations.
From there, Williams reached out the director, asked to be an executive producer and offered to do what he could to promote the film and tell Snow's story, which he got to know more of when they met in tha Bluff.
One recent morning, he touted his environmental record on a bluff overlooking the ocean in Santa Monica, but also made sure the few dozen supporters there, knew he was the one who'd opposed Arnold Schwarzenegger's agenda back when State Controller Steve Westly was helping the Governor.
NPR: Democratic Gubernatorial Hopefuls Struggle in California
W. Bryan Byrne, Palmetto Bluff's broker-in-charge, says the rules are intended to ensure the island's architecture maintains a traditional, Southern look and that residents don't build homes too large.
Never bluff or strong arm a landlord in a negotiation as this could backfire and create tension, or worse, leave you homeless if you are negotiating a renewal.
FORBES: Renters Can Score Great Deals If They're Smart, Here's How
Still, inside them the idea of self-imposed exile has risen in salience: from a bluff to a plan B.
Perhaps in 2012 someone called his bluff, forcing Newt to actually run.
He now spends about four months a year at Palmetto Bluff, spending the balance of his time in a Connecticut townhouse.
Then Diller declared that he would launch or buy a print companion to the Beast sooner or later, a declaration that looks, in retrospect, like a deliberate bluff with an intended audience of one.
FORBES: NewsBeast Merger a (Pyrrhic?) Victory for Tina Brown
Falling behind forces a greater willingness to take chances, whether it's sacrificing an important piece in chess or betting big on a poker bluff.
'He would have sat on these pews and listened to the lesson from Jonah, given from a lofty pulpit that, as he wrote, "was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows", ' says Dermot.
Aside from this jarring image, Tirin Kot is a bucolic-seeming place, a market town of flat-topped adobe houses and little shops on a low bluff on the eastern shore of the Tirinrud River, in a long valley bounded by open desert and jagged, treeless mountains.
In the old days, companies could huff and bluff and generally get away with such nonsense.
Some in Baghdad are tempted to call the Kurds' bluff and let them go their own way.
In contrast, men tend to use threats, bluff, stake out extreme positions, and use competitive and confrontational tactics.
Sinn Fein are campaigning for a poll and the DUP have discussed, in their words, calling Sinn Fein's bluff.
BBC: Opinion poll indicates NI voters would reject Irish unity
It's like Call My Bluff without the cleverness, but it doesn't actually fit in anywhere.
Some bleary-eyed fools decided, in the middle of the night, that they could bluff the markets by throwing all the chips we might ever have on to the table.
Stark and majestic in steel and poured concrete, sitting on a solitary bluff overlooking the Gulf, it is not the house you'd imagine for a retired couple, but they didn't move south to wither in the sun and die.
Since I grew up loving college basketball, I'm here to help you understand what's going on so that you can bluff your way through a meeting with American clients or hold your own in the hotel bar, at least for a few minutes.
The residence, which was built in 1929, rests on 1.4 acres of Hyannisport's bluff terrain.
But given the mess both Greece and the euro are in, the threat that Athens could yet call the eurozone's bluff won't go away.
"We're going to continue to stand our ground, " he told a business group in a speech in Seoul Friday, saying the U.S. doesn't bluff on security matters.
In July I landed my Skylane on the narrow, windswept runway on a bluff outside Livingston and visited Field again.
In Wayne's case, Ms. Moore has opted for a tall, bluff fellow with a magnificent singing voice.
The company has installed micro-turbines a top light poles at stores in California and Massachusetts that generate between 2 to 3 kilowatts of electricity but Red Bluff is the first facility that will boast a full-sized wind turbine like those found on wind farms that generate hundreds of megawatts of power.
FORBES: Walmart Erects Its First Megawatt Wind Turbine In California
应用推荐