Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shame!" Says Barker, who resigned last year as host of the Miss Universe pageant because contestants wore fur: "We want people wearing fur to be embarrassed when they walk into a restaurant. Fur is obscene, fur is cruel, and fur is archaic." Two weeks ago, the city council in Aspen, Colo., voted to put on the ballot an initiative that would ban the sale of fur in the trendy resort town. Says Aspen Mayor Bill Stirling: "As a community, we don't want to earn our sales- tax dollars from cruelty to animals...
...years and years, the members of the [NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization] at annual meetingshave made a point of saying they favor theunification of Germany," said Shepard stone, chairof the Aspen Institute in Berlin. "Now they'rerunning around trying to stop it, or at least slowit down...
...Kaye (HARVARD) d. Rick Fisher (F&M), 15-11, 15-4, 15-7; 3. Farokh Pandole (HARVARD) d. Steve Hopkins, 10-15, 15-10, 17-16, 15-8; 4. Jim Masland (HARVARD) d. Dave Rosen (F&M), 15-10, 15-8, 15-6; 5. Marty Clark (HARVARD) d. Al Aspen (F&M), 15-4, 15-9, 15-5; 6. Jeremy Fraiberg (HARVARD) d. Maurice Genser (F&M), 15-5, 18-17, 15-3; 7. Josh Horwitz (HARVARD) d. Dudley Nostrond (F&M), 15-6, 15-8, 15-6; 8. Paul Gardi (HARVARD) d. Bill Marvin...
...genetic engineering is waving a $20 bill as he makes a bet. The scene happens to be a meeting of the Humane Society in Houston, but the wager, which is part of his script, could just as easily be offered to a gathering of born-again environmentalists in Aspen, Colo.; at the Los Angeles home of TV producer Norman Lear; or on a college campus. Jeremy Rifkin bets that no one can answer this question: "What value has emerged in the past 100 years as our most dominant value, a value that is the key to our science...
These problems were limiting the appeal of skiing, he told the Aspen Skiing executives, but could be dealt with in a school "where people can come in to an unintimidating atmosphere, sit in a classroom and talk, work things through, and find out how people learn, just as we do at the tennis college." The company agreed and in 1987 signed him to a five-year contract. Ski magazine also likes his method, naming his Aspen school the best in the country this year...