Word: peaks
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...PEAK: Only 15 miles south of the Canadian border, so it takes over five hours to get there. Consequently, Jay rarely gets over-crowded, and can provide some really excellent skiing. It is one of the coldest ski areas around and gets windy often, so it's a good idea to check it out carefully before setting out. 270 miles from Boston...
That dialectic has made Brown, for the moment at least, the most popular Governor in California history. By a margin of more than 7 to 1, voters polled recently by Mervin Field approved his performance - a level of support well above Ronald Reagan's at his peak. Brown was interviewed by TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook in Los Angeles at El Adobe, an unpretentious restaurant featuring the Jerry Brown special (arroz con polio). His thoughts on a variety of topics...
...last winter are now spinning and weaving round the clock, five or even six days a week. Sales and output are surging well ahead of the general pace of recovery despite the less than robust condition of two prime textile markets, housing and autos. Unemployment, which reached an estimated peak of 20% of the mill work force last January, has been cut to 8% -below the national average of 8.6%. With a backlog of new orders piling up, Horace C. Jones, chairman of Burlington Industries, the biggest producer, pre dicts that the surge will continue into 1976; most executives...
Lester acknowledged that western climbers are more oriented toward the goal of reaching the peak, while the Sherpas are more in the "here and now," and enjoy every step...
THESE UFW SETBACKS have occurred even though the current law strongly favors Chavez. Because elections must be held at peak harvest when short-term workers usually outnumber year-round workers, UFW organizers and students with little if any previous field experience have allegedly signed up to work a few days and then have voted in the election, sometimes repeating this process at several ranches. Students and UFW organizers have also allegedly voted under the economic striker clause even though they appeared at the polls with no identification or record of employment to prove they were legitimate strikers...