Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worker had pushed the boulder onto a large flat area, he said, adding that "the crew was operating under the plan that the rock would hit and stay there...
WINTER PARK, Colo.--A huge boulder dislodged by a state highway worker rolled off a mountainside yesterday and smashed into a moving sightseeing bus, killing seven people and injuring 15 others, authorities said...
...less, with the admonition, "Peace and love, pass it on." That was the year that Rinpoche came to these shores, taking off like a Roman candle lit at both ends. He traveled and taught indefatigably, setting up scores of urban meditation and study centers, the two most prominent in Boulder and in Barnet, Vt. He had tapped a vein. A section of what used to be called the counterculture desired a guru, and here he was in the flesh. By 1975, after the establishment in Boulder of the Naropa Institute, a liberal arts college, his imprimatur was everywhere. One could...
...good fund raisers. Moreover, he encouraged them to be all they could be, in their professions as well as their heads. Successful executives, lawyers, doctors, dentists, shrinks, anthropologists, poets (Allen Ginsberg), novelists (William Burroughs) and composers (John Cage) dog-eared his card in their Rolodexes. Even the selection of Boulder as a center was a commercial brainstorm; it is a mecca for vagabond children with trust funds. He lived as ostentatiously as a televangelist -- though not as tastelessly...
...grounds that he was engaged in classified work in the 1950s. After his wife's death in Washington last week, U.S. officials urged the Soviet Union, to no avail, to allow Meiman to attend her funeral and then join his daughter, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in Boulder...