Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steep slide early in the week occurred when members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries confirmed that the group has in effect abandoned any effort to curb its production, thus ensuring a worsening global glut. Meeting in Vienna under dark snow clouds, a committee of oil ministers from five OPEC nations--Venezuela, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates--declined to propose any new output limit for the 13- member group. Their decision goes along with the strategy being pursued by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other wealthy oil producers, who are flooding the market with excess petroleum. These...
...been revived: massive ice chunks were chainsawed from Lake Phalen, floated to an underwater conveyor belt, broken into blocks (21 in. by 2 ft. by 3 1/2 ft.), / shaved, sluiced down a long wooden chute, trimmed, plucked by a crane and set into place with a mortar of slushy snow...
Jaded skiers, take heart. A civilized but still adventurous alternative, long pursued in the Alps and in Scandinavia, is catching on in the U.S. Skiers trek across the snow for several days, covering a few miles a day and sleeping overnight in huts and tents high in the mountains. Accommodations range from the rustic to the comfortable, complete with cocktails and elaborate meals. Though hut-to-hut skiing can be found throughout the northern U.S., it is most popular in the West. "The huts are really in vogue," says Dick Jackson, head of a ski-tour company in Aspen, Colo...
...flurry of snow late Saturday night brought nearly 100 people to Holyoke Center where they danced to street musician Luke Hunsberger's singing. "It was great. We had two Snow Balls--one inside and one outside," Alcorn said...
Because of rain and warm temperatures on Sunday, members of the business association decided to dismantle the melting snow sculpture with the help of 25 Cambridge children. "It looked like a bunch of kids taking down the Great Wall," Alcorn said yesterday...