Word: skiing
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...about his long hours, although they have complained that he does not permit his family the free flying privileges that most airline executives give their children. Burr and his wife Bridget, who was a cheerleader for his high school basketball team, occasionally manage to take the family to their ski condo in Park City, Utah, and to a home on Martha's Vineyard...
...tons). Even so, the nuclear-powered vessel launched last month at the Nikolayev Shipyard on the Black Sea is a notable Soviet innovation: the country's first conventional aircraft carrier. The ship sports both an angled flight deck for fixed-wing aircraft, as on all U.S. carriers, and a ski-jump ramp, similar to those on British carriers, for launching short-takeoff aircraft. Existing Soviet carrier-type vessels, like the 37,000-ton Minsk, are equipped only for short-takeoff planes and for helicopters. Revealing the Soviet launching last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said that the carrier eventually...
...into an international family destination. Expectations that he was going to top his past extravaganzas were so huge that when he started construction on the lush, waterfall-laden, 43-m man-made mountain in front of his new hotel, the rumor in town was that he was building a ski resort on the Strip. But Wynn Las Vegas, which opened in April, exudes an anti-Vegas, almost Buddhist quietude. There's no theme, no showstopper like the volcano he built outside the Mirage in 1989, the pirate ships he put outside Treasure Island in 1993 or the giant pond...
...meetings short--say, 10 minutes--and quickly lost patience with anyone not prepared. Then would come the famous Greenberg tongue lashing. His former daughter-in-law Nikki Finke, who knew the family throughout the 1970s and was married to eldest son Jeffrey in the early 1980s, recalls family ski vacations in Stowe, Vt., where Greenberg would settle into his big easy chair and ottoman next to the phone and spend hours dialing subordinates. "He'd be screaming into the phone, cursing at people and calling them idiots," she says. "I never heard anything like...
...ski team is in the process of going from a very small, unseen group of people with occasional stars like Anna into what hopefully will be a much bigger more prominent team like those we competed against,” Harlow said in an e-mail...