Word: aspenization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minutes after dawn on a chilly morning, high in the Rocky Mountains, Jeff Madison tethers his horse in a stand of aspen trees and moves slowly in a crouch past a beaver lodge, through grass still wet with dew. Below in a meadow at the edge of the forest, some 50 elk are feeding. Quietly, so as not to spook the animals, Madison sets up his 60-power spotting scope on a tripod and begins to count the elk, classifying them...
Madison has been stationed in Meeker since 1979, when he finished his wildlife division training in Denver. The country is truly beautiful-deep aspen and spruce forests, snowcapped mountains and rolling ranchland-and this partly makes up for the lack of friendship in town. So does the great variety of his work. One day he may be up before dawn to survey an elk herd by helicopter. The next day he and Duke may hike ten miles into the high country to stock a remote lake with trout. When Madison checks fishing licenses on a lake, Duke sleeps...
...roofed, half-a-million-dollar ranch homes in Mission Viejo, 50 miles south of Los Angeles, for one of the Games' few admission-free events. After the thrill of Carpenter-Phinney's performance, the crowd was treated to another last-meter dazzler by Alexi Grewal, 23, of Aspen, Colo. The 6-ft. 2-in., 150-lb. Grewal almost missed the Games: he was suspended by the U.S. Cycling Federation three weeks ago when a doping test revealed the presence of an illegal substance, phenylethylamine, an amphetamine-like stimulant. But the U.S. Olympic Committee gave Grewal permission...
...greatest amount of flight capital, $28 billion, came out of Mexico. Middle-class Mexicans developed a taste for condominiums in Vail and Aspen, and real estate investments from San Diego to Europe. Venezuela suffered $23 billion in foreign outflows, followed by Argentina with $12 billion...
...highly suitable for beach-towel browsing. In what current novel can you meet Robert Suarez, the "Cocaine King of the World," head of a $400 million dollar operation which harvests, refines and exports the leaf, gathering it from the hillsides of Bolivia and transporting it to the skichalets of Aspen and the dorms of Choate...