Word: skis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after the initial goals had been achieved. Now that 98.7% of American farms have lights, the Rural Electrification Administration has kept alive by moving into telephone and even cable TV loans. The Farmers Home Administration, which was set up to help farmers buy land, has guaranteed credit to a ski resort, a distressed steel company and at least two Ramada Inns. Financial hardship is not always a criterion. In 1978 Congress opened the student loan program, which charges only 7% interest, to everyone, regardless of the size of their parents' bank balances...
Boeing employees enjoy the good life in the city that regularly tops the list of the nation's most livable communities. Said one Boeing driver: "The wife and I always go directly from work to the marina after I get off." At the Boeing ski lodge, located on nearby Crystal Mountain, an employee's family of six can rent rooms for $30 per week. The company also provides an elegant jogging track and an indoor sports complex...
...Cars and buses and trucks were driving up and down the village's narrow main thoroughfare. Gone was the animated pedestrian mall achieved by blockades, state troopers and an exasperating, temporary one-way traffic system. Gone were the strollers, gawkers, jugglers, hawkers, hustlers, evangels, barterers. Gone were the ski-pantsed snow bunnies and gone, too, were the gaggles of boozy young celebrators lurching about singing God Bless Our Hockey Team to the tune of God Bless America...
...start house and into the first few tightly set gates. He was minutely off on the turns at first, then settled into the swoopingly rhythmic gate-to-gate dance that makes his style instantly recognizable. Just at the penultimate gate, Stenmark slid down so low on his right ski that his body was canted almost parallel to the snow. For an instant, it looked as though his try for gold would vanish in a white detonation of arms and legs and skis. Instead, Stenmark simply reached down and pushed himself up with his right hand. But the near fall slowed...
...Moser-Pröll," says former U.S. Ski Team Director Hank Tauber, "is the toughest woman athlete I have ever met." She is a calm, concentrated woman with fiercely appraising ice-blue eyes who carries a solidly efficient 147 lbs. on a 5-ft. 7-in. frame. At the downtown Lake Placid house rented for the women's team by the Austrian Ski Federation, all talk about gold medals was banned. Moser-Pröll spent the evening before the women's downhill crocheting a red tablecloth-possibly something for the Café Annemarie that she runs with...