Word: resorts
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...moving the college's starting date back to early September would help immeasurably. Of course, I've heard that the green flies of Maine are much less ferocious in September than June, and the Science Center isn't about to displace Bermuda as the Western Hemisphere's next great resort, but really, prof, a Cambridge autumn ain't all that...
...staters, "boomers," who come into Alaska generally to take as much money out of the state as they can. Those who succeed in getting jobs are, at the best, a drain on the Alaskan economy. But the out-of-staters who can't find work often resort to crime, which has skyrocketed since construction began in '73, in order to afford the state's high costs of living. Pipeline jobs are getting scarcer now, with about 10 miles of construction left in the northern sections of the Truneau Bay area. However, plans for a natural gas pipeline on the scale...
Even with these refinements, The Enforcer still has enough violence to retain its mass appeal. Violence still wins out, and the criminals are painted not as dedicated ideological revolutionaries but as the debris of society, turning to terrorism as a last resort. All the people they kill are the good guys, while Harry & Co.'s victims are the bad guys. And Harry still retains that smug irritating demeanor and quick wit that has endeared him to millions...
Never has a ski season in the West got off to a more dismal start. Skiing is a $475 million annual industry in the Western snow country of California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, and resort owners from the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada count on taking in fully one-fourth of their profits during the holiday period between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Snow normally begins piling up by mid-November, and by Christmas it usually blankets the slopes in layers 40 to 50 in. thick...
Frozen Out. Not this year. With only the barest dusting of powder in the high country, lifts are closed, lodges vacant and resort attendance off as much as 90% in some areas. About 10,000 skiers a day customarily pack the slopes at Heavenly Valley, but this year there are fewer than 1,000. At nearby Squaw Valley, the management has cut its staff to a mere 20 employees, v. the normal 700. So many of California's lodges have closed that unemployment rolls in Mono County have reached 20%, and applications for food stamps are running so high...