It wasn't just parrot people who had found themselves moved by Pepperberg's three-decade relationship with Alex: obituaries of the bird ran everywhere from The Economist to the Hindustan Times.
CASES FOR EQUALITY As Ariel Levy demonstrates, Edith Windsor's life story and four-decade relationship with Thea Spyer made her a compelling plaintiff and inspired many in the L.G.B.T. community, including us ("The Perfect Wife," September 30th).
Scott Layden, the Knicks' general manager, who left Utah last summer after almost a two-decade relationship with the Jazz, recently likened Malone and Stockton to Cal Ripken Jr.
Aides said her counsel on Egypt, however, had been resolutely pragmatic: signal America's displeasure by canceling the military exercises and holding up the delivery of F-16 fighter jets, but avoid rupturing a four-decade relationship with Egypt's military leaders.
By now almost everybody knows the story of how Mr. O'Brien's cozy two-decade relationship with that network fractured over his objection to hosting "The Tonight Show" at a later hour.
His immediate family resided in Germantown, PA., where he began his education at Germantown Academy, beginning a more than nine-decade relationship with the school, from which he was graduated in 1932.
TERRY RILEY: THE CUSP OF MAGIC Nonesuch 360508-2; CD The Kronos Quartet has enjoyed a three-decade relationship with the composer Terry Riley, and this joyous, brilliantly scored six-movement composition from 2005, in which the group is joined by the Chinese pipa player Wu Man, reflects the friendship and mutual regard between a creative artist and his foremost advocates.
Anything involving the Joplin estate has to go through us.' " Not for the first time throughout an often contentious four-decade relationship with the Joplin family, Mr. Getz sought legal advice, and he was assured of his rights as the song's co-author, he said.
Bill Snyder is retiring as the coach of Kansas State, ending his three-decade relationship with the program that included 27 years on the sideline interrupted by a brief retirement.
The nine-member council unanimously approved an ordinance to end its nearly two-decade relationship with its primary financial services provider, Wells Fargo, which is an investor in the pipeline and the company building it, Energy Transfer Partners of Texas.
Speaking to the camera in front of a chain-link fence, Kashkari alleges a more sinister motivation for the appeal: Brown's multi-decade relationship with CTA, and the millions of dollars the union has spent promoting Brown.
