Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...services to attract tourists. Examples: a computerized central reservation system for the area's lodges and an association to woo ski clubs and conventions. Even if the new tax is approved, Aspen faces an uphill battle. For one thing, the baby boomers who led the rush to the slopes are older now. "The skiing hotshots of the '60s are married now with three children," says Chamber of Commerce President Tom Clark. "We need to work harder to get them." Mindful of the family crowd, police have cracked down on overt cocaine use. Another problem: more resorts fighting...
...this point Wheeler is in no rush. Someone asks him if he misses tennis. "Not right now," he says in the locker room after notching his first varsity points since Exeter, "There's nothing like scoring a goal--it's an unbelievable feeling and the gratification is instantaneous...
...other points Caro gets lost in his impressive research and bogs down in detail. He dwells on young Lyndon's dislike of school and disobedience of his parents to the point of tedium, seemingly overwhelmed by the rush of information from newly interviewed Johnson friends and classmates. Similarly, he loses a sense of proportion when he uses the same dramatic, overheated the tone to reveal both Johnson's finagling of a college election and multi-million-dollar Brown & Root schemes...
...equality; systematic poverty instead of opportunity; Cold War brinkmanship instead of magnanimous world leadership. Only the most circumspect and thoughtful of the early activists were able to preserve their justifiable discontent in its original form. Most either drifted away from the student movement after repeated failures or joined the rush toward destructive pseudo-revolutionary militarism inspired by Vietnam and the draft...
...here and see what their plans are before we rush into something," said Independent Councillor Leonard J. Russell. In haste, we accomplish nothing...