Word: mountained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...created more than 11 million new jobs since 1991, slashed unemployment to 5.3% and turned the country into the world's hottest job machine. The same forces that have brought high-tech labor shortages to regions from Silicon Valley to Boston's Route 128 corridor are fast transforming Rocky Mountain states from energy, ranching and mining to hubs for job-rich information industries. In parts of the Midwest, manufacturers that survived the industrial meltdown of the past two decades are now the most competitive exporters on earth...
...relieve the pressures of programming, Evans took up mountain climbing. One day Gates got a call from the headmaster: Evans had been killed in a fall. "I had never thought of people dying," Gates says. There is a flicker of emotion. "At the service, I was supposed to speak, but I couldn't get up. For two weeks I couldn't do anything...
...family fought its way through the crowds from the new Indiana Jones attraction to Space Mountain to my personal favorite, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. In front of the signature Disney castle, there was a line of at least 50 people--some of them unaccompanied adults--waiting to meet Snow White, procure autographs and have her pose for photos. She left abruptly, touching off a wave of parent protests and shrieking tantrums by young girls. Luckily, the prospect of a very un-Disney riot was averted when a fresh Cinderella, greeted with wild applause, was whisked in to satiate...
...rivers statewide. Oregon is about the only state where matters appear to be improving. But I-5 is still closed in southern Oregon and 40,000 customers remain without long-distance telephone service. Rains are supposed to begin slowing throughout much of the region. But the Cascade and Sierra mountain ranges can expect up to another 10 inches of snow before the storm subsides...
...molehill turned into a mountain. B.U. took a one-point lead with 12:05 to go, took the lead for good with 9:49 to go and slowly extended the advantage to as much as 11. Late in the game, Harvard got as close as five--mostly due to B.U.'s bad free-throw shooting--but a Crimson win was not going to happen...