Word: pack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frozen Out. Not this year. With only the barest dusting of powder in the high country, lifts are closed, lodges vacant and resort attendance off as much as 90% in some areas. About 10,000 skiers a day customarily pack the slopes at Heavenly Valley, but this year there are fewer than 1,000. At nearby Squaw Valley, the management has cut its staff to a mere 20 employees, v. the normal 700. So many of California's lodges have closed that unemployment rolls in Mono County have reached 20%, and applications for food stamps are running so high...
...point, because next September a new opportunity will spring forth that most seniors are currently unaware of. Now don't worry, applications aren't due for two weeks yet so there's still plenty of time, and the lone requirement is the ability to guzzle a six-pack while watching the Gong Show...
...helped launch many of the programs he will soon be trying to run. As a special assistant to Lyndon Johnson, he wrote so many memos for L.B.J.'s "night reading" that the President once testily asked another aide whether "y'all brought 'em up here by pack mule...
...imply that a collection of colored smears and slobberings and pieces of a pack-rat nest is art and its creator Robert Rauschenberg is an artist is akin to saying that what Jack the Ripper did was surgery and he was a surgeon...
Using the courts, Goenka has sued successfully to have his electricity restored after a mysterious two-day black out, and Irani has obtained a court injunction against a government attempt to pack his board with Gandhi nominees. Outside the courts, both publishers have had to talk suppliers into risking government retaliation by continuing to do business with them. In addition, Irani has had to persuade stockholders to resist selling out to Gandhi supporters. Irani himself has bought up thousands of Statesman shares and distributed them to loyal staff members...