Word: skis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard ski teams each came down a notch from their outstanding performances last week at the MIT Carnival Woodstock and Pico...
...says a new resident, Megatrends Author John Naisbitt. When Bicycle Fortune Heir Richard Schwinn moved in eight years ago, he recalls, "it was like paradise." But perhaps not for much longer. Laid-back little Telluride, Colo., remote hideout for a smattering of the trendy rich and uncrowded preserve of ski connoisseurs, seems about to be discovered. The hills are alive with the sound of condo construction; resort developers are poised on their bulldozers. And a big part of the reason is that the hippies who crash-landed there in the '70s have changed. Says Durfee Day, who arrived...
Things have also been looking up for the women's ski team, which showed great promise at the Bowdoin Carnival, finishing only three points out of second place. Bowdoin is also the dominant team in women's competition
...meantime, it looks like the Harvard ski team" the men's team at least-- should be competitive if not dominant over the next four years...
...Wilbert and Genevieve Gore, the employees, or "associates" as they are called, are grouped into teams of no more than 150 to 200 people to encourage new and different ideas and products. One such team developed GORE-TEX, a line of insulating fabrics used in space suits, tents and ski jackets. Gore also makes antipollution filters, desalinization products and artificial veins and arteries...