Word: resorts
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Another friend then told him about an opening for general manager at a resort in Waterville Valley, N.H. He moved again, "since I wanted the challenge of working with the general public." His "responsibilities included handling 5000 people at a time, running a ski lift, ticketing, and running a restaurant." After eight years, he had enabled the previously struggling company to turn a profit...
...because of their awesome power of destruction. Yet claims of this kind hardly justify the Act before us. Its provisions would go so far as to prohibit research to discover better safety mechanisms for avoiding nuclear accidents, research to improve capabilities for defense that could reduce the temptation to resort to preemptive nuclear striken, and research that might help prevent other nations from gaining a weapons superiority that could have critical destabilizing effects...
...Mount St. Helens. In addition, the USGS study notes that since 1982 earthquakes have shaken California's Coso Range, a volcanic region west of Death Valley; Yellowstone National Park, which is famed for its hot springs and geysers, notably Old Faithful; and Mammoth Lakes, a popular California ski resort near the Nevada border...
...Thus for the past 21 years, contrary investors have annually trekked far from Wall Street's madding crowd to band together for a few days and offer one another encouragement and advice. Last week more than 300 gathered in Vergennes, Vt., for the Contrary Opinion Forum at a resort on the shore of Lake Champlain...
...licensing of reporters. Such ideas are expected to be raised again by Soviet and many Third World delegates next month at a UNESCO conference in Paris. The Western press is fighting back: last week representatives of 60 print and broadcast organizations from 25 countries, meeting at the Alpine resort of Talloires, France, agreed to condemn all "attempts to regulate news content and formulate rules for the press...