Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bitter bobsledders' joke is that some of those crates are getting pretty old. To this enterprise, the U.S.O.C. chips in about $100,000 annually, and Corporate Sponsor Lederle Laboratories helps somewhat. But the equipment afforded is far from the best on the mountain. Not just holding down the bobsleds, but holding them down for the count, those good old boys from Saranac Lake, Plattsburgh and Keene Valley in upstate New York are still just about the best bobsledders in the Adirondacks and not quite the worst in the world...
...spent the major part of our lives in the snow The thought of Americans at the top of the mountain is still heady and strange. Alpine skiing is baseball to the Swiss, the Scandinavians and the Liechtensteiners. In the U.S., it is barely lacrosse. Skiing is not a necessity in Lexington, Ky., but the reigning women's overall World Cup champion, Tamara McKinney, is from there. For three years, Phil Mahre of Yakima, Wash., has been the men's overall World Cup king, and his twin, Steve, holds the World Championship gold medal in the giant slalom. Skiers...
...skier's closest relationship is with the mountain. "I love to be on the hill in the morning when it's still dark," Phil says, "to make three or four runs just waiting for the sun to come up." Because of a bleak December and dismal snow in Europe, the brothers came home early from the World Cup tour to Yakima for practice over Christmas. So far, their best finishes have been a third for Steve and a ninth for Phil, who says, "It's funny sometimes how quickly everything can just click in. When everything...
...slide from gold is less-than-state-of-the-art equipment. After a typical defeat in an international meet last year, novice Pusher Joe Briski, 28, encountered an East German who told him, "You Americans can send a man to the moon, and you still drive down the mountain on this...
...college students. The company believes that executives in small firms will not be as tied to IBM machines as their colleagues in major corporations. Apple already has contracts to supply Macs to students at Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and Drexel. Cautions Fred Gibbons, president of Software Publishing, based in Mountain View, Calif.: "It may take Apple a year to learn how to sell...