The same compensation is true for Bristol Bay as a whole; if the stock in one or more rivers is smaller than usual, other rivers might be higher than usual so the total amount of sockeye available to be caught is relatively constant.
At MTV, an executive, gazing out at her usual patch of river, replayed bygone vistas: cruise ships carving their slow, bizarre turns; huge orange barges; boats; the day the Intrepid returned to Manhattan, trailing red-white-and-blue rooster tails.
If the gathering in the park was predictably old New York, with women arriving in a pastel haze of fourth-floor designer suits, fancy straw hats and the usual diamonds, Ms. Rivers's party was something else.
In 1994, the salmon catch was smaller than usual in the rivers of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, causing concern among commercial fishermen, government agencies, and tribal leaders.
Top 40 radio, the usual confluence of musical rivers, where Motown met Zeppelin, was in decline.
The city shivered with its usual slower Sunday rhythm: the river, the sky, a thousand moving parts.
The usual technique of interpretation of river water quality is a univariate procedure which does not adequately characterize simultaneous similarities and differences between samples or variables (Dixon and Chiswell 1996).
Giants tight end Marcellus Rivers struck his usual low-key pose at practice Wednesday.
Water levels are higher than in 1988, when 3,000 Bangladeshis died.The floods are in part blamed on more water than usual flowing into India's rivers from the Himalayas; flooding has already claimed the lives of over 1,000 people in India.
Unusually heavy rains forced water districts to drain other lakes and rivers earlier than usual to avoid flooding.
