Word: boulderer
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...Boulder, Colo...
...result is the fast trading easy money of a land boom. Ranchers near Denver or Boulder can sell their holdings of sage and scrub for as much as $3,000 an acre. Colorado is now one of the nation's fastest-growing states (seventh after Nevada, Florida, Arizona, Alaska, California and Maryland). But there is a mounting fear that the developers' busy bulldozers threaten the very qualities of their state that Coloradans cherish most. Worried, the Colorado Institute on Population Problems has taken to statewide TV to urge: "Think small...
...scientists: some suspect that it may be due to the slippage of the earth's mantle over its underlying core. Whatever the cause, the slowdown is a major nuisance to the National Bureau of Standards-which watches over the national time standard with its cesium clocks at Boulder, Colo.-and other institutions and laboratories that operate atomic timepieces. To keep these clocks in step with the earth's less-than-regular rotation, they must be reset periodically by a small and painstakingly calculated amount. Because the corrections are done independently and at different times...
...DAVID GOSSACK Boulder, Colo...
...Patriarch, long hardening into his time, he grew weary of waves and stiffened himself like a flatiron. Having dared so much ocean and sky, time and terrain, he let his eyes droop and then slept, a boulder among other boulders...