Word: puget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...travel or return to his favorite recreations, hiking and sailing. Living under the philosophy, "You can't beat the West," Duggan has taken full advantage of the region's resources. He began sailing at the age of five on his father's homemade 19-foot Lightning in Puget Sound and dreams about owning a 45-footer someday...
...traumatic as the upset was for Boeing, however, it was equally painful for the city of Seattle. With the Puget Sound's largest single employer facing ruin and the tarmac at Boeing's Everett assembly plant, the biggest such plane factory in the world, choked with unsold jumbo jets, Seattle's entire economy went into a slump. A grimly cynical highway billboard on a road heading out of town summed up the prevailing gloom: "Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights...
...city of Seattle is one of the biggest draws that Boeing has to offer. Though its seasons seem perpetually drizzly and Puget Sound's reputation for rain, fog and cradle-to-grave mildew is widespread, Seattle actually has less annual precipitation than New York City, Atlanta and even Houston, a fact that civic boosters take endless delight in pointing out to new arrivals. The region also offers the quiet self-confidence of a major metropolis, complete with civic center, a nationally recognized opera, ballet and theater, and the National Basketball Association champion SuperSonics...
Most of all, Seattle is where one goes to be dazzled by some of the most spectacular big-league nature found anywhere. With Puget Sound on one side and Lake Washington on the other, the city is a panorama of pleasure boaters, skyscrapers, the 1962 World's Fair Space Needle and, looming 60 miles to the southeast, the snow-peaked volcanic cone of Mount Rainier...