Word: flocks
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Teenagers seem especially drawn to the waves. In the Eastern Surfing Association, an East Coast club based in Rhode Island with 6,000 members, the average age is 17, down from 21 five years ago. E.S.A. Executive Director Colin Couture believes that young people flock to the beaches because they are tired of highly regimented school sports. Says Couture: "In surfing, it's between you and the wave." Couture, who has persuaded the Boy Scouts in California, New Jersey and Florida to sponsor surfing programs, thinks the image of the sport has improved and is thus attracting more participants. "There...
Other landlocked beach bums flock to wave pools. These are giant tanks the size of football fields into which water is pumped, flushed or paddled to produce breakers three to six feet high. Today there are more than 100 tanks around the country, up from 30 five years ago. Geauga Lake, an amusement park near Cleveland, has even staged exhibition surfing in its wave pool...
Experts question, however, whether bargain-conscious consumers will flock to an improved IBM PC. They feel that Big Blue may have to pare prices even further before many buyers will forsake the inexpensive IBM look-alikes. Boot up and watch the results on the screen of your choice...
...high screens they had just erected. Later that evening, 22 miles away, another group of men in tribal orange filed through the village of Downpatrick and gathered on a field of freshly mown hay. "We have our backs to the wall," an aged Protestant clergyman exhorted his flock, "and our whole province is in a state of turmoil...
Many computer users still resist the idea of paying for help. Says Hand- Holding Founder Emil Flock: "People expect to get billed when they talk to their doctors and lawyers. But when they talk to a technical-support person, they expect it to be free." There are signs, however, that this attitude may be changing. Robert Refvem, for one, happily plunked down $65 for six months of MicroPro's premium service. "I call them up, I get a technician, I'm off and running," says the Burlingame, Calif., real estate agent. Besides, he adds, "it's the only way they...