Word: round
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well. Combined green-and-cart fees on the two Tom Fazio-designed courses at Wild Dunes, an island resort 20 min. from historic Charleston, S.C., are $80 and $50 in December and January, vs. $165 and $100 from mid-March through May. The resort's three-night, three-round golf package, including villa accommodations and breakfast daily, is $89 per person per night in low season, $121 in high...
They know, for example, that most airlines have senior discounts for travelers age 62 or older, primarily in the form of coupon booklets good for four one-way or two round-trip segments. All four coupons can usually be used for one round trip to Hawaii. Northwest's senior coupon booklet costs $560; Delta's and American's are $596. The greatest savings with these coupons occur if you have to fly at the last minute or if you want to fly to several cities on one trip rather than make a straightforward round trip--two scenarios for which...
...history, music. The week-long program costs $1,950 per person, which includes some meals as well as the courses and accommodations. In high season, lodging alone at the tony Hyatt starts at $430 per night. On the East Coast, themed weekends, from birding to ballroom dancing, occur year-round at the 129-year-old historic Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, N.Y., where A.A.R.P. members receive 15% off standard room rates regardless of season. Most of the weekend programs are free to hotel guests, as are acres of gardens and trails to explore, plus the full array of traditional...
...principal trouble spots are the shock-absorbing disks between the vertebrae and the facet joints, at the back of each vertebrae, that act as brakes to rotation. Each disk is a round ligament, made up of an annulus, which is like a multilayered collagen basket that absorbs rotational stress, and a lighter-density liquid nucleus that absorbs compression. The layers of the annulus are woven for maximum absorption. But it doesn't take much to tear this basket. "You can tear the annulus with no more than 3[degrees] of sudden loaded rotation," Watkins says. "If the disk ruptures into...
...toward boosting credentials for college admissions officers or prospective employers. These are students with enough memory of corporate downsizing to know that the job market can be ruthless, and they're dazzled enough by tales of 24-year-old Internet millionaires to realize that the fast track runs year-round. "The job market is as strong as we have seen it in decades, but there's a signal pressure--a race to be more qualified than the next person," says Philo Hutcheson, a professor of education at Georgia State University...