Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though he did not enter the HRO competition his first two years at Harvard, Hinton's success is not wholly unprecedented. He has played with both the Boston and Dallas Symphonies and participated in music festivals at both Aspen and Tanglewood...
...winter, of course, there is always snow in the Colorado mountains, and usually a lot of snow. In most cities, even in ski towns like Aspen, the snow seems to turn brown as soon as it hits the ground. But in Vail, even nature has some kind of reverence for a beautiful scene...
Serious skiiers usually pass over Vail and head for Aspen or Steamboat Springs, which are much harder to reach, but reputed to offer a greater number of really challenging slopes...
...warm himself twice, once by bragging about the money he is saving and again by preening at the perfection of his environmental posture. Heating oil, for the moment, costs less per gallon than bottled no-lead spring water. Never mind economy, however. There are congested localities such as Aspen, Colo., and Missoula, Mont., where wood burning is immoral, toxically wasteful and severely curtailed. The sweet-smelling, picturesque blue-gray smoke rising from Grandma's condo on a crisp December morning simply loads the air with too much additional junk...
...wealth, their life is an austere one in some ways. Ivana goes on skiing vacations once or twice a year, but although Trump joined her at Aspen over the Christmas holidays, he generally doesn't like vacations. "I like to do business," he says. "Work is the pleasure of my life...