Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, there was no clear winner or loser-unless, as some leading Democrats lamented, it was President Reagan. The debate, sponsored by the House Democratic Caucus, was held on the snow-covered New Hampshire campus of Dartmouth College. For the first 1 Vi hours, all the candidates responded to the evenhanded questioning of ABC Newsman Ted Koppel (see PRESS) with measured campaign statements. In the second 1½ hours, most were goaded into sharper exchanges by Donahue, who hopped about with his microphone soliciting questions from the audience and throwing in some zingers...
...would appear that 1 those people are actually traveling on their sides in a bobsled at 75 m.p.h., and sailing off a 90-meter platform on skis, poised in the air like flying hinges, and plunging furiously down a mountain, making erratic Zs among poles stuck in the snow...
...then again, it may be the silence that holds us in the first place, and not the speed. Skaters whooshing slightly, skis barely cracking the snow...
...worrisome truth is that skier days (one skier, one day) at the nation's resorts last season reached only 46.9 million, down almost 4 million from the season before. Was it just bad snow in the East, or has the skiing population reached a plateau? No one is really sure, but the best of the resort managers are choosing the same cures. The come-on is "Kids Ski Free!" At Waterville Valley, New Hampshire's largest area, there are free lift tickets on most weekdays for children under 13, if at least one parent buys a ticket...
...four they get on real snow. Instruction has changed too. Says a Keystone pro: "It used to be, 'Bend your knees and follow me.' Now I tell them where to go for a good pizza or where the video games are. It's part...