Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades make. Golf seems destined to be the game for the 1990s. Business, on and off the links, is booming. Some 23 million golfers last year teed off at 13,626 courses in the U.S. -- up 30% from 1985. They spent $15.6 billion on equipment, clothes, fees, lessons and resort travel, with the average duffer shelling out $675 each year. Industry analysts predict that annual sales will double by the end of the next decade. The sport supports no fewer than four major magazines: Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, Golf World and the phenomenally successful Golf Illustrated, whose circulation has increased...
...bloody attack on a Rome synagogue that killed a two-year-old boy and wounded 34 people. The Minister decreed that Al-Zomar's actions fell "within the domain of the struggle to regain the independence of his homeland." Such frustrating episodes may explain why U.S. authorities occasionally resort to more subterranean alternatives to extradition. In 1987 Lebanese plane hijacker Fawaz Younis was lured out of Cyprus by U.S. agents posing as narcotics traffickers. They persuaded him to discuss a drug deal on the yacht Skunk Kilo as it plied international waters. Once aboard, the agents handcuffed Younis and promptly...
According to Bozzotto, negotiations with Harvard have never been easy. He and Local 26 have had to resort to short-term strikes when previous negotiations with the University became heated, as in 1983 when the union held a sit-in at the Holyoke Center...
...brief also notes that the illegality ofabortion in the 19th century had "differentialimpacts on different races, classes andethnicities of women," says Walkowitz. "Whilemiddle-class women seeking abortions were able toafford a safe and relatively hygienic procedure,poorer women were forced to resort to `back-streetabortions...
...Robertson Davies are among his writing friends. Irving has two other homes, one in Vermont and the other from Vermont but in eastern Long Island. The wood-frame structure had been dismantled, transported to Long Island and restored among the summer retreats of the Northeast's most glamorous resort area. "I'm known as the eccentric bastard who moved to the Hamptons and brought his house with him," says Irving, a man who can take satisfaction in having done things...