Word: slopes
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...machine washable for easy cleaning. The jackets, which range in price from $500 to $1,000, will be available at select high-end retailers in December. Of course, both companies (not to mention resort operators) expect responsible use of their jackets?screaming out "I'm on the ski slope!" is definitely discouraged...
...machine washable for easy cleaning. The jackets, which range in price from $500 to $1,000, will be available at select high-end retailers in December. Of course, both companies (not to mention resort operators) expect responsible use of their jackets - screaming out "I'm on the ski slope!" is definitely discouraged. www.burton.com...
...turns the pilots make are intended to bleed off speed in order to ease the shuttle down to Earth, but they are a lot more complicated than simply slaloming down a ski slope. The spacecraft's engines are shut off for good once it leaves orbit, meaning its descent is powerless. Flying a brick with wings, as the engineers have often called the ship, has a very fine margin of error. Lose your purchase on the air and go into a spin, and there's almost no way to pull out of it. "The attitude needs to be very, very...
...that have passed the point of no return--even if they don't know it. Kansas State's Darling says that once a town is down to its post office and silos, the decay is fatal. He estimates that 20% of Kansas' 627 incorporated communities are on the slippery slope to extinction...
...idea. Locally organized land giveaways have been tried sporadically for years, without much success. Typically, a town springs to action only when there is talk of shutting down the school. Yet by then the town is already on the slippery slope. In July 1981, Harley Kissner, then a 72-year-old bachelor who owned 640 acres near Antler, N.D., was alarmed by plans to shut down the school. He ran ads in three area newspapers offering ground to anyone who would build a house, move in with children and stay at least five years. The ads got national attention. "People...