Word: skier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, innocence may be catching up with America, because the U.S. is certainly gaining on the cold world. The team of 120 athletes headed for Sarajevo is flush with champions, and not only skaters this time, although there is a bumper haul of those, but skiers too. Count them, seven current or recent world titleholders: Alpine Skiers Phil Mahre, Steve Mahre and Tamara McKinney, Figure Skaters Scott Hamilton, Rosalynn Sumners and Elaine Zayak, and Nordic Cross-Country Skier Bill Koch. Once the American public finds out that there is also a Nordic combined event and that it involves...
...worrisome truth is that skier days (one skier, one day) at the nation's resorts last season reached only 46.9 million, down almost 4 million from the season before. Was it just bad snow in the East, or has the skiing population reached a plateau? No one is really sure, but the best of the resort managers are choosing the same cures. The come-on is "Kids Ski Free!" At Waterville Valley, New Hampshire's largest area, there are free lift tickets on most weekdays for children under 13, if at least one parent buys a ticket...
...After earning a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T., he got his start working for William Shockley, the Nobel-prizewinning co-developer of transistors. Noyce is married to Ann Bowers, a vice president of Apple Computer. He enjoys piloting a twin-engine Cessna Citation jet and is an avid downhill skier. Friends consider Noyce something of a daredevil, both in the way he lives and in the way he invests...
...danced into the small hours at a local disco, and returned in the morning to fly the prototype of a B-1 bomber. He is an avid wild-game hunter ( he decorates his office with his kills) , a motorcycle enthusiast, an expert skier and an amateur rodeo rider...
...Industrie and the new Abidjan Hilton, the city's profile is reminiscent of Florida's Epcot Center. Traffic across the Pont Général De Gaulle bustles every bit as much as along the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C., and even an occasional water skier can be spotted crisscrossing the wake of an outboard on the lagoon-like Cocody...