Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fuel shortage may seriously cripple the ski industry this winter, but anyone who has entertained the thought of investing in ski equipment for Christmas should not be swayed by this bleak prospect. Even if the dearth of fuel closes your favorite resort or prevents you from getting to the slopes very often this season, you would do well to check out the Boston ski shops just the same...
...buyer's market in the ski equipment industry this year; the best opportunity in years to get new, top-notch equipment at drastically reduced prices. The sales of recent weeks have been phenomenal and they are continuing. A lot of factors have led to the creation of this market, not the least of which is the overflow from the tremendous flood of new equipment models and accessory styles in the last few years...
...restrictions on speed and the scarcity of gasoline will also hurt operators of ski resorts, many of which can be reached only by cars or a few buses...
...brilliant fall, this promises to be Europe's cruelest winter of discontent. Like America, Europe has celebrated more than a quarter-century of spiraling conspicuous consumption, and it is not mentally prepared to do without. Cars clog the cities. Lights burn through the night. Parents plan their precious ski holidays around the Christmas vacation, assuming that they can all go on living as they are. But that will not happen. The fourth Arab-Israeli war and its consequences have brought Western Europe to the point of no return...
...national association of ski area operators last week called on Congress to assure them that they will receive the necessary amounts of fuel to operate throughout the season. They will spend a large sum of money and much effort to lobby for this assurance in coming weeks. Even if their efforts are successful, the shortage may still affect them. The newly-announced plan for the prohibition of Sunday gas sales will probably significantly reduce the number of Sunday and weekend skiers--the bread and butter of the ski industry. The areas will try to compensate by enticing more mid-week...