Word: placid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the way the Hockey East and ECAC tournaments have worked out, it seems logical to expect Hockey East to move into the Garden next year and see the ECAC move its event to Lake Placid, which is closer to most of the conference's contending schools...
...million. Buoyed by the TV deal, he turned toward his other big source of revenue, America's largest corporations. To create an aura of coveted elitism, he drastically reduced the number of sponsors to 30 (there had been 381 in the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid) and hiked the price to an unprecedented $4 million minimum per corporation...
Rosalie Kirkendale Lake Placid...
...lived in Mexico City most of my life and saw its transformation from a small, placid, clean city into the monster it has become. The worst problem continues to be corruption at all levels of government. If 30 public officials were to return what they "borrowed," Mexico's foreign debt could be paid in less than one week...
...ways. The Bostonians continues where The Europeans--a recent Henry James adaptation by the same producer, director, and writer--left off. The latter was a competent, meticulous, pleasant enough piece about a broad of scandalous foreigners who descend on the placid New England scene. The Bostonians is visually reminiscent of the earlier film, but looks even more gorgeous. Shot around Beacon Hill, Harvard, and Martha's Vineyard, it is so consistently picturesque you almost expect to see Whistler's name in the credits. The main problem with Ivory's Europeans were the Europeans themselves, who were about as scandalous...