Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this case, the corporation is Vail Resorts, which operates eight hotels, 82 restaurants and many other businesses in Vail and nearby communities. Just before the fires, the company won a bitter court battle to begin Category III, an Orwellian-sounding ski development on what is now 885 virgin acres of mountain forest. Environmentalists oppose the expansion because they think it will chase away the few remaining lynxes believed to be on the land, one of the species' last known habitats. Workers had begun clearing trees for Category III just days before the fires...
...Olympic sports was that the country's state-run system allowed the government to go into preschools and scout out children with particularly good motor and balancing skills-and then, after interviewing the children's parents to see if their body types were conducive to a particular sport, to begin training the children immediately. It's easy to use this fact as a way of showing the failure of communism to recognize personal liberties. But all we have to do is create a market for such performers in America to achieve similar results...
...hear from more of them later in life. It's rare, for example, to see renowned artists whose work was first exhibited when they were teenagers. Maybe most of them, having published their major works by 16, get burned out. Or maybe their stuff was only slightly impressive to begin with, outside of the fact that they did it "at their...
Cafe Gaia will officially open on Nov. 9, but hopes to begin doling out offerings like beet, carrot and celery juice as early...