Word: pools
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...hair and a soft, open manner, moved to Crested Butte from New Hampshire in 1986, when she became director of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, a high-altitude field station based in the ghost town of Gothic. The federal grazing land around the lab was leased by a "range pool" that included Trampe, now 50, who left college and started ranching in 1967 after his father dropped dead in the field. Trampe's elders in the range pool couldn't fathom the lab's scientists. "To a rancher, it's strange to see somebody crawling around the hillside huntin' bugs...
...Highway 50, which runs right through the center of the country. With a revolving cast of writers, editors and photographers (coordinated by special-projects editor Barrett Seaman), we visited factories and shops, ate at local cafes and in people's homes, joined in town meetings, played in pool halls and on gambling boats, and stopped our Greyhound at whatever struck our fancy...
...This is our chance to get out," said superintendent John Simmons. But not at our expense, reply residents of manicured places like Indian Hill, where per-pupil spending nears $8,000 a year and voters have only once killed a school levy (they said no to a new swimming pool...
...dysentery virtually disappeared from the U.S. But the chemical has been under attack in recent years by environmentalists for contributing to the destruction of the earth's ozone layer. Greenpeace's "Chlorine Kills!" campaign is focused primarily on paper bleaching and other industrial uses, but the organization also urged pool operators to look for an alternative to chlorine...
...there is a shortage of highly-trained workers in Massachusetts. Companies have dozens, even hundreds of unfilled, high-wage positions. One fact is clear: our policies should be targeted at expanding the pool of highly-skilled workers. Our strategy should reinforce Massachusetts' leadership in higher education and create incentives for individuals to invest in their own educational advancement...