The nests of nonparasitic cuckoos are loose platforms of twigs placed in low vegetation or, rarely, on the ground.
"I couldn't believe my eyes and turned to a crew member and said, 'Is that Jack Birch looking through the window at Thora?' " Mr. Birch said that he had been backstage at that moment examining "a loose, very wobbly platform that Thora and others had to walk across".
The city's Department of Buildings and the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration are investigating why the platform broke loose.
How did these foreigners — a woman in a loose head scarf and platform sandals, and a lanky photographer, snapping away — manage to get down there?
Mr. Moreno and his brother, Edgar Moreno, 30, fell to the street after their platform broke loose from the building at 265 East 66th Street.
Under Thatcher it was easy to bundle up a series of prejudices: the trade unions, the fight against Irish terrorists, street muggers, immigrants and German federalists, into a loose but catchy electoral platform.
Although her dancing has lost some power, she had plenty left to animate the theatrical genius of the part, using a platform, her loose hair and a long, red-lined overskirt to become a bereft widow, a towering Amazon, a cobra-headed fire.
The loose coupling enables any platform or service to operate even when another component is unavailable.
After all, this is the week that the world's largest chip company, Intel, finally lets loose its Centrino chip platform for mobile computers.
people talk about platforms in loose ways, and I think that the.
