Word: boulderers
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Meanwhile, Jobs has inspired hopeful activity far from Silicon Valley. The Chamber of Commerce of Boulder, Colo., last week invited Jobs to bring his new company to that city (pop. 77,000), where some 7,000 high-tech workers have been laid off during the past 18 months. Jobs could probably use a Rocky Mountain high, but he has yet to respond to the offer...
Susan Mitchell, the president of a small computer-software firm in Boulder City, Nev., is one of Lewis' satisfied clients. Says she: Lewis has "been able to expedite my preparation of our product by three months...
...Company" known as the CIA. Yet even as the recruiting figures are rising--the rate of job inquiries has more than doubled since the early 1970s--so are protests over the presence of CIA representatives on campus. Last week 450 demonstrators were arrested at the University of Colorado in Boulder as they attempted to disrupt the interviews...
Unlike the often violent demonstrations of the 1960s, the recent anti-CIA protests have been relatively restrained. Although police at the University of Wisconsin in Madison sprayed Mace on 15 protesters who tried to stop recruitment efforts last week, other demonstrations have been peaceful. In Boulder, where university police and protest leaders met in advance to set ground rules (say your piece, present yourself for arrest), the local district attorney said that no one would be fined or jailed. The publicity seems to have worked in favor of the recruiters. During the protest the agency interviewed 140 students, in contrast...
...Ansar camp was built by the Israeli army in 1982 on a bleak, boulder- strewn plateau in southern Lebanon to hold Palestinians taken prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The detention center was emptied in 1983 after Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian groups arranged a prisoner exchange, but it filled up again over the past 16 months as the Shi'ites of southern Lebanon waged their own war against the occupying forces. Israeli authorities explained that although the freed prisoners were members of various terrorist organizations fighting the Israeli army, none was known to have actively participated in attacks...