Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes no sense. "The odds are not with the participant at all," says Orthopedist James Garrick, head of the University of Washington's division of sports medicine. Dr. Garrick is so concerned that he is participating in a conference on ski injuries to be held this week in Aspen, Colo. The agenda includes such abstruse topics as "Rotational Instability and Its Repair" and "The Biomechanics of Tibial Fractures in Skiing...
...resort of Aspen, Colo., is getting so spoiled by runaway commercialism that Author Hunter Thompson (Hell's Angels), who calls himself "a foul-mouthed outlaw journalist," figured that a shrill anti-progress campaign might just get him elected sheriff of Pitkin County. "Sod the streets, ban autos!" he cried. "Savagely harass land rapists!" By describing the job as "main pig," the shaved-skull exponent of "freak power" put off the conservative electorate, but the ecology issue is so big in Aspen that according to unofficial tabulations, Thompson lost by only 455 votes...
...Iowa's Governor Robert Ray asked Aspen to hunt for every statute in his state that requires him to make an appointment to high office before a given date. Ray had almost neglected to fill one position before the deadline, and he did not want that to happen again...
...national food corporation wanted to attach nipples for baby bottles outside the package of a product as a sales device. When Aspen found that this would violate health laws in several states, the company abandoned the plan...
Horty knows the limitations of his service. For example, Aspen has put on computer tape the decisions of only one state's top court-Pennsylvania. Still, having easy access to all the relevant statutes will enable legislative aides to look up case law far more quickly than they could before. Moreover, Horty maintains that the time saved on researching statutes will free lawyers for their "primary function" of legal analysis...