"When facing the climate adaptation challenge, hydropower plants can make a precious resource to manage water, prevent damages from extreme weather and regulate irrigation systems," says Richard M Taylor, executive director at the International Hydropower Association.
You were so busy being angry at a perceived slight from the past that you lost the fleeting chance to make a precious connection?
Bottled water has been condemned as "corporate abuse," since it makes a precious commodity more expensive.
Once they had made a precious breach through Saracens' middle, one man who demonstrated his England place is set in stone was Joseph.
In a telephone interview, Stephen Emmel, another of the scholars involved in the preservation and translation of the papyrus, praised National Geographic's role in making a precious historical document accessible to scholars.
Mr. Van Allsburg's new book, "Zathura," published this month by Houghton Mifflin ($18), again features a house, again disingenuously designed with the well-tended touchstones, like a pot to put wet umbrellas in, that make a home precious for its predictability.
Fans of "message" films might make a case for Precious, which takes a long, hard, in-your-face look at abuse and urban deprivation, and Up in the Air, Jason Reitman's smart recession-era satire of corporate America, starring George Clooney.
Perhaps it was thought impolitic, or unwise, to showcase their collective works, in case too tasty a slice of "The Big Sleep," or too gorgeous a memory of Willis's cinematography on "Manhattan," might make a film like "Precious," a noisy affair to begin with, look about as subtle as a road-drill.
That would make Pelfrey a precious commodity on a club that has been decimated by injuries in spring training.
Like other adult children who have moved into the building or the apartment complex where they grew up, Mrs. Marron says that being an elevator ride away from her parents can make privacy a precious thing.
Now Tiffany & Co. is trumpeting that, in honor of its 175th anniversary, modern-day alchemists have made a new precious metal to adorn the wrists, fingers and necks of its wealthy clientele.
