Competent and unflappable, they're on hand to impart intel and exploit their bulging contacts book, from the prosaic (map-marking, metro-finding) to the eccentric (pet-monkey loan, parachuting proposal).
Peak concentric torque (PCT) and peak eccentric torque (PET) will be measured at an angular velocity of 30°/s.
Behind the News The Las Vegas police and the F.B.I. said they had not found a link to terrorism, and so far have only hints about what Roger Von Bergendorff, 57, might have been doing: there were the guns and an anarchists' handbook found in his room; debts and a bankruptcy filing; anecdotes about eccentric behavior involving pets and animals.
After all, Americans spend more on equally eccentric pursuits--pet care is now thought to be a $40.8 billion industry--and no one disputes that lawns have some important fringe benefits, especially in terms of reducing heat and dust.
Article tells about the eccentric hostess, the strange pets she kept in the house and about a dozen Indian visitors who trooped in, stayed for a meal & never uttered a sound.
The animal rescue world can be an eccentric battlefield, a place where pets matter more than their people, and Ms. Pezanoski registers its admirable and unsettling elements fairly.
But even in jurisdictions where ferrets are allowed, their owners are often stereotyped as being smelly, eccentric hoarders, possibly because of their pets' odd, long bodies and musky scent.
A historic Lake Tahoe estate in Nevada, built by an eccentric San Francisco real estate investor who stayed there with his pet lion and pet elephant, was scheduled to open its doors for public tours last Thursday.
As a femur-shaped island paradise that snapped away from the Gondwana supercontinent some 80 million years ago, New Zealand is famously home to eccentric forms of wildlife that look like pets for a Hobbit.
So self-regarding Fitzmaurice, hopeless medic Rafferty and nature-loving Crozier head north with an eccentric crew, a stowaway suffragette and Fitzmaurice's haughty pet iguana on a journey that does not go as expected.
