Word: vail
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When Frank Lorenti of Minturn, a rustic little burg down the road from the villageopolis of Vail in the Colorado mountains, put barbed wire up to keep snowmobilers off his property last winter, the town council responded by outlawing the spiked fencing altogether. Police chief Lorenzo Martinez agreed. "Considering the damage it could do, people don't think barbed wire is appropriate," he reported. "There are a lot of other types of fences...
...might to suppress it, class at Harvard is like a cold sore: harmless but hard to miss. Globetrotting friends glibly recount their ski vacations at Vail or winter breaks in Fiji; BMWs line the parking lot between Lowell and the Fly; whole blocking groups oddly come from the same zip code...
...Speakers wrestled with the freshet of platitudes, insisting that this time they were true. Former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, who covered Ford as a member of the White House press corps, admitted, "We went to Vail at Christmas and Palm Springs at Easter - with our families." He concluded, "Farewell, Mr. President. Thank you, citizen Ford...
...seven counties, Gilpin has a state park, portions of two national forests, and no supermarkets; Grand County is the western portal to the state's most primo real estate, Rocky Mountain National Park; and Summit has three ski areas: Breckenridge, Copper Mountain and Keystone. Eagle County (where Vail is located) has 19,316 registered voters and 44,421 registered vehicles, an average of 2 1/2 vehicles per voter...
...offset their extra expense, Vail has chosen the peculiar strategy of giving away a free lift ticket to homeowners who offset their own energy use via Renewable Choice (Whole Foods' strategy is to offer gift cards). This additional cost is made in the hopes that skiers, who arguably have an interest in preserving the environment, will be encouraged to choose Vail's resorts over its competitors. "We're hoping our guests sign up and have heavy participation in our program," says Vail CEO Rob Katz, "and then think, ?maybe I'll ski an extra day, maybe an extra two days...