Word: skiing
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...problem. Intel's hyper-rational, Grove-trained engineers told concerned callers not to worry unless they were planning to sweat some advanced astrophysics problems that weekend. The callers hung up and dialed CNN. And the New York Times. And the Wall Street Journal. Grove, who was on a Christmas ski trip at the time, was floored. "He had really punched himself in the face," says one of his daughters, who watched him grimly ride the lifts for three days. "We were all like, 'This too shall pass,' but he just went inside himself...
...explaining about his downhill run into bankruptcy. "I had to buy back my clothes. I had to buy back my dogs." Don't waste any sympathy on Gillett--he certainly doesn't expect any. Because Gillett is king of the hill again. Actually, 11 of them. His Booth Creek Ski Holdings Inc. has acquired 11 ski resorts in just over a year, the latest being Loon Mountain in New Hampshire. He's part of a trend in which four big companies--Vail Resorts, American Skiing, Intrawest and Booth Creek--are rapidly buying up ski areas. The four are banking...
Located in Hakuba, 30 miles from Nagano, the ski-jumping venue expects crowds of 36,000 to cheer for a home team that has serious hopes of gold. A curtain hung on the poles at left will protect jumpers from tricky winds...
Face it: no matter how stunning the view, the blinding glare of winter sun on a ski slope or in an office building can be a pain. That's why Research Frontiers thinks its "smart glass," which lets people electronically control the light that shines through windows, is such a bright idea. By next year, the Woodbury, N.Y., firm's high-tech tinting should be incorporated into ski goggles, car sunroofs, skylights and, of course, windows. In homes, it could help regulate temperature and conserve energy, something even Mr. Sunshine would approve...
...struggled to find an outlet with mainstream houses. Although he proudly claimed he had never given an advance of more than $10,000, he regularly lent money to writers who had fallen on hard times. Laughlin was a pioneer in the world of sport, founding Alta, a ski area in Utah beloved for its light powder and cheap lift tickets. In his later years, he returned to his youthful dreams of writing poetry. Just before he died, Laughlin was working on Byways, an extended narrative he was writing in a meter he had learned from Kenneth Rexroth, another New Directions...