Word: slopes
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...power a public grist mill. The town was enthusiastic and work began immediately, in 1636. Unfortunately, dramatic alterations in Shaw's scheme proved necessary, as the Charles was simply too lazy to turn a mill. These alterations were left to John Elderkin, who diverted the river down a precipitous slope to his grist mill. This led to a marvelous lawsuit in which a judge ruled that Elderkin was entitled to no more than a third of the Charles's water, although the judge gave no clue as to how the river water could be measured...
...spectators, the In spots at Innsbruck last week were Mittermaier Mountain and Hamill Hall. At least that is what Winter Olympic officials might as well have called the sites where West German Skier Rosi Mittermaier and American Figure Skater Dorothy Hamill performed. Mittermaier Mountain was the steep slope of Axamer Lizum, where tens of thousands of Germans and Austrians chanted, "Rosi, Ro-si," every time their daredevil streaked by, which she did fast enough and often enough to win three medals: two gold and one silver. Hamill Hall was the Olympic Stadium, where seemingly every American in Austria turned...
...When she started down the course, American Skier Cindy Nelson, 20, was not sure exactly what route to take: earlier, one of her coaches had unintentionally given her the wrong line to follow, and she had completed only three of nine practice runs. Even as she hurtled down the slope, Cindy was slightly off course. "When I saw my time," said the Lutsen, Minn., native, "I thought, 'Hell, that's a fifth.' " In fact, it turned out to be a third, giving the U.S. another skiing medal to go with Bill Koch's cross-country silver...
...Poor Slope Condition...
...second proposal, championed by Arctic Gas, a consortium of 19 American and Canadian pipeline, oil and utility companies, would bring the gas to U.S. markets entirely overland through 5,450 miles of lines from the North Slope through Canada. Although the $9 billion Arctic Gas plan would cost about $1.2 billion more than the El Paso system, it would also apparently be simpler to operate. Unlike the El Paso proposal, it would require no fleet of special-purpose tankers, no liquefication and deliquefication plants and no complex reshuffling of regional gas supply patterns...