Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Young men today are turning to hazardous life-endangering sports such as hang-gliding and mountain climbing as a substitute for the wars of the Middle Ages, which perpetually fulfilled the male need to tempt fate. President Reagan should be applauded for his valiant and obsessive efforts to save the lives of these misguided daredevils by taking them out of their mountain-climbing boots and trying to put them back into combat boots...
...comparatively underpopulated Rocky Mountain states are expected to fill up at the most spectacular rate, with the region's population almost doubling by 2000. Six of the seven fastest-growing states lie between the Plains and the Sierra Nevada. The state of Nevada, growing most rapidly of all, is expected to increase its population from about 800,000 to almost 2 million by the start of the 21st century...
...target in the hills. On Thursday, as the shelling continued, the Americans responded with artillery fire and with four shells from a 5-in. gun aboard the Bowen, a U.S. frigate stationed off the Lebanese coast. The naval fire was aimed at a Druze artillery base near the mountain village of Shimlan, to the southeast of the airport...
...their long-running confrontation is the Chouf, where both groups sought refuge from Sunni Muslim persecutors 1,000 years ago. Before Lebanon deteriorated into outright civil war in 1975, Aytat and Suq al Gharb lived in peace as summer resorts. Wealthy Arabs were drawn to the towns' cool mountain air scented by thick stands of parasol pines. Since the fighting resumed in earnest last October, the villages have become ghost towns. Gardens are overgrown, grape arbors drop their fruit into rotting piles. The newer four-and five-story apartment buildings are dotted with jagged black holes, evidence of frequent...
...Estaing, 57, President of France from 1974 to 1981; James Callaghan, 71, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1976 to 1979; and Malcolm Fraser, 53, who was defeated as Prime Minister of Australia in March after eight years in office. During their three-day stay at the scenic mountain resort, the five former leaders reminisced, and criticized the policies of their successors. "What we have here," said a less than serious Schmidt, "is a beautiful experience: a conspiracy of former world leaders against present world leaders. But thank God none of us has the power to alter anything any more...