Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Freshman Outdoor Program (FOP) steering committee interviewed 20 candidates in its search for the rare administrator-fisherman-rock climber to lead the ADJ organization...
...peak. Lowe climbed the nose of El Capitan in 10 hrs. and made the first solo ascent of the north face of Wyoming's Grand Teton. He conquered Everest twice. Despite the superlatives regularly heaped on him by colleagues, he said, "I'm just the world's most dogmatic climber...
...shirt bearing the words CUTTHROAT BUSINESSMAN. It is a reference to the cutthroat trout he would like to catch (named for the red slash across its throat) and to the antithesis of the sort of businessman he is. He glides from rock to rock like the champion mountain climber he also once was, while I muddle wildly, tottering like a top at the end of its spin, tangling my fishing line and attempting to heed my instructor...
...Tellme Networks, walked away from millions of dollars at his previous job to get his new company off the ground. It's his third start-up, and each time he has risked everything. In his spare time, McCue gets himself off the ground. He's also an avid rock climber. "I like to feel self-reliant and independent," he says. "And when I'm up there, I know if I make a knot wrong...
...Peter Pan with urgent needs for a dynamic, motherly woman. He pleaded for her love like an infant; she lectured back on behavior and "being your best." Theirs was a mother-son relationship, "psychical rather than sexual," wrote Winston Churchill. But to the Prince, the financially beset social climber was "the perfect woman." And David, as Wallis always called the man who would not be King, insisted to the end that they had never been lovers before they married...