Word: skying
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...wasn't any easy night for anyone, including spectators. Fritz Walter Stadium sits on a hilltop in the south part of Kaiserslautern. In the hours before the game, fans trudged up the steep hill - there is no parking - to take their place at a site better suited for a ski jump. No wonder they were so cheery standing in line for beers, even singing the national anthem - they'd finally made it to the top. They did an encore for the start of the game - loud and proud - and immediately began howling at the ref. We could have been...
...after he formally notified the Corporation and other senior staffers of his resignation, Summers boarded a plane for a long-planned ski trip to Park City, Utah, despite a vigorous debate over canceling the trip among his senior staff members, according to a source close to Mass. Hall. He was smiling on his way out the door...
...Resources Committee warned of possible deficits of $100 million by 2010, but outlined a financial plan that would cover those deficits. English chair James Engell asked whether administrators were certain of the Faculty’s financial health: “It’s very exhilarating to ski downhill, but one wants to be assured that the chairlift works...
...lasted only 13 months. Net income rose 21%, to $1.4 billion, for the full year ending Feb. 28, but Nike's stock has slipped 5.3% in 2006. Adidas, which nearly imploded in the 1990s, is working through another restructuring. The company last year spun out its ill-fitting Salomon ski business and bought Reebok, the perennial No. 3 brand. Adidas profits rose 25%, to $537 million, over the past year, but its stock has slipped 1.4% off its 52-week high of 175 euros ($223) a share in late January...
...DIED. Bill Kirschner, 87, inventor, with his brother Don, of the first commercially viable fiber-glass skis and co-founder of K2, which became the largest U.S. ski manufacturer; in Seattle. Familiar with fiber glass from his work building animal cages, he sensed that the material could produce faster skis than the wood and metal ones then available. Introduced in 1964, the skis became favorites of Olympic and world champions and helped turn K2 into a winter-sports titan...