Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shortage of righteous men, or women. Largely young and well educated, many of them exiles from the crowded East, they are determined to preserve their town's picture-book alpine charm. Tucked away in a sparsely settled 8,885-ft.-high valley, 25 miles south of Aspen as the eagle flies (but 217 miles by paved mountain roads), Crested Butte is an exurbanite's spiritual El Dorado: a 19th century mining town lovingly restored down to the last curlicues on its old gingerbread houses. It sits amid meadows, streams and mountains that seem to have been made...
...leader of the opposition is Crested Butte's paraplegic mayor, an émigré from Aspen who likes to style himself as simply W (no period) Mitchell. (He was born William John Schiff III in Philadelphia, but adopted his stepfather's name.) For the past four years, the wheelchair-bound Mitchell, 38, who was badly burned in a motorcycle accident ten years ago and paralyzed in a plane crash four years later, has tirelessly attacked AMAX and questioned its assurances that the mine will do no harm. Noting that up to 20,000 tons of ore will...
...campaign must be shortened. The first contest now is the Iowa caucus in mid-January, but the candidates have to start raising money long before that in order to get federal matching funds. One remedy-urged by former L.B.J. Aide Douglass Cater in a study for the Aspen Institute-would be to ban use of federal funds before the spring of an election year...
...Arms Control." Nye, one of about 25 members of the Democraticoriented group, said this week he had explored the possibility with current chairman Leslie Gelb, who is stepping down to rejoin the New York Times. Nye is in Washington today for an arms control conference sponsored by the Aspen Institute...
...women--he just cranks out a banal notation of these girls' eye color, hair length, and extra-curricular activities. The reader can only conclude that Larson really didn't care that much. Women slain in Seattle blur with women bludgeoned, stripped, and abandoned in Salt Lake City, Aspen, and Tallahassee. As the stock descriptions accumulate we get only a sense of the growth of the pile. Death here is only a general, unspecific horror, of numbers and names; unbelievably, the story never knots up into a communication of the individual, intolerable tragedies...