Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley slows down, everybody, from realtors in Cupertino to restaurant owners along Stevens Creek Boulevard in San Jose, gets a bad case of the blues. But one of the best barometers of the health of California's computer manufacturers is Doug Young. He manages the Porsche dealership in Sunnyvale, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Sales at his showroom, where the most expensive models go for $50,000, are so sensitive to the region's economic trends that a few days of good news will generate a mini Porsche rally. On the other...
...however, seems to have employed bacterial conversion better than Microbiologist James Whitlock of the Homestake Mining Co. He found a solution to the problems caused when the company dumped water laced with cyanide, which is used to leach gold out of ore, into South Dakota's Whitewood Creek. Whitlock examined waste-water samples until he found bacteria, grew them in the lab, then exposed them to higher and higher levels of cyanide and saved the survivors. He then installed these superbugs in a brand new $10 million water-treatment plant, putting billions of them on each of the 48 rotating...
...prize was $10, second $7.50 and third $5. Ernie Thompson, wearing a Chevrolet cap and leaning on a cane, got started off all right but then got lost in the convolution of his story. "My lie starts back in the spring of '37. I was down here on Rock Creek fishing a pretty good-size little hole." He saw a squirrel on a stump and then a bear swallowed the squirrel. Before it was all over he had caught a fish, which weighed about half a pound, that had swallowed a coon, which weighed 22 lbs. Ernie took second place...
...Underwood, favoring truth on the sidelines, took no part in the liars' competition. "I had to give up hunting two or three years ago," he explained. "Afraid I'd get hurt tramping around. I backed off a creek bank once. Don't know why I'm here to tell it today. My daddy was a country doctor from over in Franklin County. Did I just drift off again? Well, they tell me you get that way when...
...year before four employees left to form InterFluve in Bozeman in 1984. Another recent start-up, Jim Walsh's Stream Team in Longmont, Colo., has begun hooking big contracts like a six-year job Walsh has with the A Bar A guest ranch in southern Wyoming, rehabilitating a creek that flows into the North Platte River...