Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lots goes on here in the town of Night-soap, most every night of the week. Mondays Blake Carrington comes to visit, with his young wife, his tramp daughter, his homosexual son and a billion dollars' worth of Colorado oil contracts; Blake is trying to build a Dynasty. Tuesdays we see the Weldons,from up on Flamingo Road; they got more problems, and hormones, than an alligator has teeth. Thursdays we play bridge with the young marrieds from Knots Landing; most of the time, though, they want to play other indoor games. Fridays we reserve for our oldest friends...
...Rockies, where the dastardly high is centered, have also remained especially dry. The best snow at many ski resorts in the region is manmade. At Colorado's Crested Butte, in fact, there is a special type of man-made snow. One day last week resort operators there enlisted a band of Ute Indians to do a snow dance. Sure enough, there was an unexpected snowfall by morning...
...ross the Colorado Rockies there has been no major snowfall since late November, and the once bustling ski resort at Breckenridge was closed down...
Central and Southern California are receiving only 20% of normal rainfall, and the situation in Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona is about the same. In Colorado the snowpack is just half as deep as usual by now, and only the expensive snowmaking machinery installed after the disastrously dry season of 1976-77 is salvaging a share of the state's ski business this year...
...Skidmore or a Mount Holyoke it never was. But Colorado Women's College in Denver had improved academically from the finishing school that used to produce Miss Americas (1955 and 1974), splendid skiers and fine wives for cadets at the nearby Air Force Academy. Still, over the past decade enrollment had dropped from 1,100 to 509, and last week the school's debt stood at $5.6 million. President Sherry Manning, 37, a University of Colorado Ph.D. in management science, felt that drastic measures were needed. She stunned the campus by announcing that because of "financial exigency...