Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kinds of students--from die-hard preppies to rugged mountain climbers, and from the merely curious to the nomadic--have made the three-hour trip north from Boston. Many choose the wee hours of the morning for the scenic drive and find Bean's open and doing business 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Store hours haven't changed since 1951. There aren't even locks on the doors...
Kelley, who operates a grain farm and cattle ranch with her husband and lobbies for the Rocky Mountain Farmer's Union, feels that there are serious problems with the nation's farm policy...
...power of positive TV thinking is especially evident in the "faith message" or "prosperity Gospel," a major Pentecostal variant in the 1980s. Its chief exponent is Kenneth Copeland, 49, platform maestro of the bustling Eagle Mountain Chapel outside Fort Worth. Urging viewers to give a tenth of their income to the Lord, Copeland asks himself rhetorically, "Well, Brother Copeland, are you tithing to get?" His answer: "Yes, yes, yes! A thousand times yes! I want to get healed, I want to get well, I want to get money, I want to get prosperous!" Other advocates include Frederick Price...
Both Titania and Oberon, each some 1,000 miles in diameter, have huge, distinctive features. Voyager spotted a three-mile-high mountain on Oberon and a valley running all the way across the visible surface of Titania. On the moon Ariel, 730 miles across, three linear patterns seemed to resemble the tracks left by terrestrial glaciers. Only Umbriel, 740 miles in diameter and covered with overlapping meteorite craters but with few other features, seems to have been largely unaffected by Uranian gravity--for reasons scientists cannot explain...
That sentiment is echoed by an increasing number of exercise-minded Americans. "Twelve years ago, we didn't even have a consumer market," says Ronald Labrum, president of Centurion Sales Co. in Mountain View, Calif., which then concentrated on supplying gym equipment to institutions and apartment buildings. Now 25% of the company's customers buy for their homes. Declares Labrum: "It's probably the fastest-growing market segment we have...