Word: skis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well, not all of the '70s came back. Funk, polyester, and Pam Grier are back. Even the Village People are hip again. Ski sweaters ? and Denver's never-raucous blend of country, folk and white-bread pop ? simply have not received their...
...dollar, which in turn encouraged Soros to increase his investment; it totals around $250 million. Flush with cash, IRSA has been on a buying spree, investing in everything from a $50 million sports complex to major office buildings to $450 million worth of swank shopping malls. In the posh ski resort of San Carlos de Bariloche in the Andes, IRSA joined with Citicorp to buy the deluxe Hotel Llao Llao, with its spectacular view of Argentina's lake country...
...second place is the Barker Center, which, while equally spacious and immaculate, lacks the user-friendliness of the Adams dining hall. Perhaps it's the ski lodge smell, or the endless number of office administrators smiling behind glassed-in department cubicles, or the towering front doors that refuse to open, but somehow it doesn't yet feel like home...
...affinities with his mother, William has recently begun to shoulder royal duties. Last January, the increasingly independent William chose to forgo a Swiss ski vacation with his father and brother and stay at Sandringham with the Queen, Prince Philip and a host of junior royals and friends, including his pal and cousin Peter Phillips, son of Princess Anne. He apparently has a close relationship with his grandmother, whom he regularly visits at Windsor for Sunday-afternoon tea and chats about his future role. "Relationships with grandchildren are always easier than those with your own children," says someone who knows...
...seemed like the plot of a very bad movie, but it wasn't, and before it was over Chris Foote and Spring Wright were dead. Five intruders in ski masks, two with body armor, stormed a three-bedroom bungalow in the Maryvale area of Phoenix, Ariz., at 4 a.m. one day last week, using a sledgehammer to bludgeon their way into the house. In one bedroom they found Louisa Sharrah and proceeded to bind her arms with plastic cuffs and strike her with a metal flashlight. The men woke her young children and held them at gunpoint as they screamed...