Word: resorted
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...international court is not designed to be a court of first resort; it is designed to be a court of last resort," Scheffer said...
...whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." The job situation improved in the 1930s, aided by the Works Progress Administration, the famous WPA, with which government as employer of last resort built schools, post offices, airfields, parks, bridges, tunnels and sewage systems; protected the environment; and fostered the arts. By the 1940 election, the anticapitalist vote, almost a million in 1932, had dwindled...
Juxtaposed against these movers and shakers on spring break are the lift operators, ski patrol and resort workers: the locals. These tough and hardy souls sacrifice their "earning potential," as we would say in Harvard vernacular, for something we don't have: 120 days of skiing a year in the peace, beauty and allure of the mountains...
...course this job comes with definite drawbacks. It is here where the esteem society places on different professions translates into snobbery. Many resort guests constantly be little resort workers, failing to act kindly towards or even acknowledge those paid by the hour. They (and sometimes we) are too busy enjoying the fruits of their labor to act with common decency. But on the whole, a local's life of powder, blue skies and simplicity is appealing to someone who swims in problem sets and essays even while on vacation...
...resort guest's propensity to write off the lives of the locals as insignificant in comparison to their own grandiose existence, they sometime forget that the freedom locals have is precisely what they lack. These pompous guests I see every day at the ski resort are people for whom freedom was traded for money, success and one week of skiing a year. These are people we are in danger of becoming...