Word: skiing
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Half a world away, the sinking dollar had a very different impact on vacation-bound Germans. They jammed foreign-exchange counters from Bonn to Berlin in search of greenbacks to spend at U.S. destinations such as Disney World in Florida or ski resorts in Colorado. Latecomers found banks sold out of dollars and were advised to try again in several days. That was not good enough for determined folk in Munich, who roamed from bank to bank in the hope of laying hands on the suddenly scarce currency...
...cards to buy on impulse, without even leaving their chairs. Since opening its interactive doors last October, Cybermalls, a Vermont shopping center with nearly 60 ONLINE BUSINESSES ranging from a coffee store to a marine equipment shop, has built up bustling traffic, in part, by offering free information on SKI CONDITIONS and vacation resorts...
Meanwhile, the Brady Law will make things harder for criminals, though maybe not hard enough. For instance, late on a Friday night last month, a store surveillance camera picked up eight men in ski masks outside the entrance of Ed's Gun & Tackle in Marietta, Georgia. One of them took a hard swing at the display window with a sledgehammer. Nothing happened. (Sometimes that shatterproof glass really works.) The group scattered, then returned in a car, which they drove straight through the glass doors. What followed was a frenzied minute of supermarket sweep as the intruders grabbed 60 semiautomatic handguns...
Arturo Coruzzo leads two lives. In his workaday world, the 33-year-old Verona bank clerk tries to be the picture of decorum. There was a weekend this month, however, when he went just a bit crazy. Two Saturdays ago, he stood halfway up a Swiss ski slope yelling himself hoarse with cries of ``Forza, Alberto!'' As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence. Too late. His hero, rushed by a mob of other brandy-fueled fanatics, ran for protection. Was a blurred whoosh-past by Alberto Tomba...
...smarter bomb but also one with laser-guided determination. His image--that of a fun-loving playboy--belies the Zenlike, almost scary concentration he has brought to bear in amassing 43 career victories over nine years. Although Tomba competes only in slalom and giant-slalom races--he does not ski the downhill, super-giant slalom or combined races, the other three ingredients in World Cup competition--he has made his two events a near monopoly. His heft helps, no doubt, but championship form comes more from his total focus on building speed and calculating the tightest turns around the gates...