Word: helping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mountains are fighting back--with a little help from their friends. The Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, a coalition of private mountain-loving groups, along with the Forest Service and other public agencies, has targeted 35 of the 54 peaks for restoration. Every weekend a small army of volunteers heads for the hills, blazing trails, shoring up paths and redirecting misguided streamlets. On Humboldt Peak, more than 400 tons of rock were hauled in by rope and bucket to plug a 4-ft.-deep gully that ran for a quarter-mile. On Grays Peak, a well-groomed trail to the summit will...
...other social activities are rare. Mar can only pray that the sacrifice will pay off in college aid. "By the time I graduate, it's going to be almost time for the two eldest kids to go to college," she says. "I'll need all the help I can get to pay for their education...
...stock his British homes with 240 flower arrangements a week. He is also generous to charitable causes and is God's gift to the spectacle and sunglass industry. John's rep says that the singer's finances are in fine harmony and that the loan is merely to help him buy back rights to six of his albums. Has he ever heard of a budget...
...here's a salute to the Americans who make waitresses laugh and to the ones who pick up litter on the beach, the ones who stop to help the ones who have flat tires, the ones who return wallets, the ones who pick and sing for fun and the ones who run the Fritos pie booth at the PTA school fair. Here's to the clerks who say, "Now you have a nice day, hear?" and mean it, and to the ones who say wryly, "If it was a snake, it would've bit you." Here's to whale savers...
...related how opposing teams got frozen fish and newspapers thrown at them on the ice, and how this was all great fun, especially against Harvard, and that a win against Harvard can make any team's season. Harvard's football, soccer and hockey teams always draw the crowds to help Cornell prevail, he said...