Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team to Los Angeles had direct political benefits for Ceauşescu. Government broadcasters boasted that victorious Rumanians had "dedicated" their victories to their President, or were inspired by this month's 40th anniversary of Rumania's liberation from fascism. Moreover, with an ailing economy and a mountain of foreign debt, most of it owed to the West, there was no harm in projecting Rumania in the U.S. as a friendly and unorthodox Communist state worthy of special Western treatment...
...Burton, who taught literature and drama in a local school. "He had a very coarse, rough voice then, with a heavy Welsh accent," says the senior Burton, who became his legal guardian, giving him a new home and a new surname. "We would go to the top of a mountain, and I would teach him to recite Shakespeare to me without shouting. He wanted to speak standard English, without the Welsh accent, and I had him read the part of Henry Higgins in Pygmalion." Young Burton probably had more in common, however, with Alfred Doolittle, the free-living dustman...
...about smog and heat and traffic scared a lot of people away," said Charles O'Connell, the Olympic traffic-operations chief in Los Angeles. "There was a feeling of 'let's not come to L.A. this year.' " So traffic is also thinner at movies, restaurants and Disneyland's Space Mountain, as the out-of-towners have not kept pace with the let's-get-out-of-towners, rendering hotels uncrowded and compelling rent-a-car companies, among other profiteers, to restore normal rates. Since fully 70% of those attending the Games are estimated to be local, this almost qualifies...
...gold, taking both heats, Vails the silver, and Japan's Tsutomu Sakamoto the bronze. As they racked up the wins with their funny bikes and star-spangled skinsuits, the reasons for U.S. success became evident: Eddie B.'s tight pre-Games team tactics and rigorous Rocky Mountain regimes. As Vails put it last week, "In today's cycling world, you are what you train." They were just fine in Los Angeles. -By J.D. Reed. Reported by William Blaylock and Lee Griggs/Los Angeles
...latest crisis in the Great Salt Lake's erratic history. Lying in the Great Basin between the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas, the lake collects runoff from the nearby Wasatch Range. Its only outlet is through evaporation, so the lake becomes 2 million tons richer each year in mountain minerals that have no means of escape. Some parts of the lake can be eight times saltier than the ocean. Perhaps even more remarkable, the Great Salt Lake generates its own weather system, known as the dreaded lake effect (DLE). During early spring, when a storm moves into the area...