Word: resorted
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...unit, a plainclothes force charged with getting guns off the street. The unit makes up 1% of the police department but seizes 40% of guns recovered in New York. Critics say the unit, whose unofficial motto is "We own the night," cuts legal corners and is too quick to resort to force. "You have to have a new paradigm of policing," says Ron Daniels, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. "This gung-ho, military-type, fraternity-style policing has got to change...
...economists expected that it would boost the U.S. trade deficit. Countries hit by the crunch are less able to buy U.S. goods and more hard-pressed to sell their own goods; as the U.S. economy was the strongest in the world, it appeared to be the importer of last resort, buying goods when no other economy could afford them. The biggest danger from the crisis, it was predicted, was that the U.S. might refuse to play this role, erecting barriers against world trade, knocking out the supports from the global economy and repeating the mistakes of the 1930s...
Across the country, ski areas are getting wilder. New York's Whiteface Mountain recently opened the Slides, hundreds of feet of treeless, sheer rock face atop the East Coast's highest vertical drop. The Mount Hood Meadows resort in Oregon runs a Sno-Cat tractor so that skiers and boarders can move 1,000 ft. higher to reach an in-bounds canyon that offers 55[degree]-angle chutes (90[degrees] is vertical...
Many backcountry purists, though, want places more isolated than the resorts' wilderness areas, and they'll spend thousands to reach even more remote wilderness zones. Some are traveling to Irwin Lodge, near Crested Butte, which is the largest Sno-Cat resort in the U.S. Co-owner Molly Eldridge says the lodge, which charges $225 a day for skiing, is almost fully booked this year...
...reported on actress Pamela Anderson's harassment by "Hormonal Teenagers" at the Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este [PEOPLE, Feb. 8]. You blamed it on "randy Uruguayan boys." However, right now Punta del Este is practically taken over by vacationing Argentines. It seems all too likely that it was young men from Argentina who mobbed her. VERONICA PEINADO Montevideo...