Word: skied
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...that his ever present American-flag lapel pin had been lost in the jostle of a South Carolina crowd, the Senator's crack advance man Tom Keady produced a plastic bag full of spares. And Keady saw to it that the bib Kerry was issued for a recent charity ski race in New Hampshire carried the number...
Under Armour's buyers include 101 major college-football teams, players from 28 NFL teams, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, the U.S. ski team, college and pro lacrosse teams and countless youth teams. Under Armour has no military contracts, but a Navy SEAL reports that he and his comrades "pool our money and buy it out of our own pockets...
...energy, water, weather derivatives, broadband capacity and anything else that could be turned into a commodity. The strategy spawned explosive growth. By 2000, Enron was the seventh largest company in America. The '90s were fat times for Enron, and the corporate culture oozed in excess. The company rented ski condos in Beaver Creek, Colo., and stocked each with a personal chef. Christmas parties were multimillion-dollar, black-tie affairs with ice sculptures...
...flamboyance. Stout, gray and slightly stooped, his speech measured and monotonous, he comes across as someone who would shun risks. And yet there are stories. There is Cheney the teenager in Wyoming, attaching a rope to the hood of a car and taking turns with his friends water skiing down irrigation canals that ran parallel to roads outside Casper. There is Congressman Cheney in 1983, five years after his first heart attack and a year before his second, catapulting down a treacherous ski slope in Jackson Hole, Wyo., his red scarf flapping in the breeze behind him, as his fellow...
...writer of oddly humorous experimental plays, played to type by reading aloud from Martha Stewart’s personal monthly calendar, as printed in Martha Stewart Living. Martha won’t be available for holiday parties on Sunday, Dec. 22, as she intends to cross-country ski, “if there is snow.” Ryuji Yamaguchi, dancer extraordinaire, treated the crowd to an exposition of physical strength and agility. Yamaguchi balanced a chair on his face and then juggled apples, eating them as an encore...