Word: outdoors
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...dedication is exemplary. "I've got discipline because I've got nowhere else to go," he says. "I elected to be a writer, and now that I'm 46 it is simply what I do." In his work habits and careful craftsmanship, though, McPhee resembles the outdoor loners, the cerebral athletes, the prickly eccentrics who regularly pop up in his books. "I don't consciously seek out subjects for their expertise," he says. "But people who are experts at something put a lot of effort into becoming experts. I am attracted by their single-minded drive...
QUIET, PALM-SHADED UNIVERSITY in Southern California with $90 million budget and more than 30,000 students devoted to academics and outdoor recreation needs new leader w/achieved academic excellence and interest in town-gown harmony. Experience in running state institutions helpful; Predecessor Brage Golding was capable administrator but fought ceaselessly with divided 23-member trustee board (half appointed by Governor Jerry Brown, half by former Governor Ronald Reagan); Golding fled to Kent State, attributing fondness for Ohio to fact that "the state legislature there meets only once every two years." Salary: $41,000 to $55,000. Use of state...
Following its founding in 1892 by a lawyer named Ezra Fitch and a sportsman named David Abercrombie, A & F made its name catering to the outdoor elite. It outfitted Theodore Roosevelt's African safaris and Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica, and counted among other famous customers Flyer Charles Lindbergh, Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfer Woodrow Wilson and aground Sportsman Ernest Hemingway. Yet, while it eventually expanded into a chain with branches in nine cities, A & F never adapted to modern-style retailing or to a younger, more budget-conscious generation of activists who preferred to buy from...
Meyer, who like most devoted runners competes during the indoor and outdoor track seasons once cross-country is over, hopes to "set an example through dedication." Mark claims that "my biggest role is to keep spirit high...
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