Word: ponderosa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scapegoat Wilderness, where the trees sound like a crowd waiting for the curtain to rise. It is a place where a man who hates technology would have plenty of time to practice what the Unabomber preaches. He could listen to the forest rustle and hum, the larches and ponderosa pines hundreds of years old, the tamaracks and the lodgepoles that totter when the wind rubs up against the Continental Divide. What he didn't know was that for the past few weeks, the trees were listening back...
...donations that normally underwrite such a celebration. Continental Airlines won't provide free seats to celebrities. General Motors will not provide 300 cars, free of charge, for the parade, and Ralston Purina will not hay and water the hundreds of horses that usually turn the Mall into an urban Ponderosa for a few days. "They are doing the Caesar's wife Inaugural," said insurance lobbyist Michael Lewan, a Democrat...
...persistent labor shortages raise the issue, Why, with so many jobs going begging, are so many people unemployed? One reason is that technical and vocational training has failed to keep up with industries' needs. "We've misled our kids," says Rollie Heath, president of Denver's Ponderosa Industries, a precision machine shop. "For the last 25 years we've told people that the jobs you do with your hands--those jobs don't count. We've basically told young people, 'Don't even consider those jobs...
...trees sound like a crowd waiting for the curtain to rise. It is a place where a man who hates technology and progress and people would have plenty of time to practice what the Unabomber preaches. He could listen to the forest rustle and hum, the larches and ponderosa pines hundreds of years old, hundreds of feet high, the tamaracks and the lodgepoles that totter when the wind rubs up against the Continental Divide. What he didn't know was that for the past few weeks, the trees were listening back...
...friends used to live in homes," says a woman who lives in a tent. "Now they're camping." This was outside Telluride, the too-precious- for-words old Colorado mining gem that perches way up there in the San Juan Range like a jay's nest in a ponderosa pine. The woman, Jill Mattioli, 28, used to have an apartment in town -- back when she could afford it. Now she lives off in the woods near others who service Telluride in manifold ways but whose purchasing power is so weak they sleep in their cars, in campers, in condemned shacks...