Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Park Service "smokeys" tend to be crowd-control specialists, while mountaineers tend to be sentimental anarchists, so the latter may view Farabee's remarks with high suspicion. Does "need to be held more responsible" hint that another shoe is about to drop, this one on mountaineers' grand, airy freedom? The phrasing sounds grumpy and disapproving. Rescuers' rears will hang out no matter how rescue costs are paid. Will there be an official effort to check climbers' credentials, now nonexistent...
Bonding sounds ominous, if it means posting big bucks to be forfeited (as with a bail bond) in case of calamity. But it would be hard to argue against voluntary hiking-and-climbing insurance, perhaps offered at modest extra cost along with park entrance fees. In Austria insurance comes with membership in the Alpine Club, which costs little and also gives unlimited opportunity to climb with experts...
...resistance isn't merely visceral. Compared with the crapshoot of producing movies, the unglamorous business of distributing them is virtually a sure thing: for sending out a $1,400 print of Last Jurassic Action Park, studios get $1 from every ticket sold. Manufacturing and shipping CDs, a business that employs tens of thousands of people, is similarly dull and profitable. Still, the moguls aren't Luddites. MCA Music chairman Al Teller, for instance, says MCA will have its own one-at-a-time CD-system prototype 18 months from now. And Sid Ganis, president of marketing and distribution for Sony...
Dinosaurs run brilliantly amuck in Spielberg's Jurassic Park...
...promise of a middle-class tax cut. With great ceremony, he was presented with a bowling ball and a shirt embroidered with his name. At a photo-op back in Washington, he demonstrated the power of volunteerism (read: no government spending) by helping to mow and clean up a park in a rundown neighborhood...