Word: puget
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...season. For McCarthy, who's spent most of the fall battling injuries, it was a gratifying way to end the season. For Diaz, whose mother made the trip out from Chicago, it earned her a proud parent and a dinner for the team on the dockside of beautiful Puget Sound...
...Executive John Spellman, 53, anticipated with relish another battle with the crusty lady this year. Instead the Republican faced-and defeated-Seattle State Senator James McDermott, 43, who had trounced Ray in the Democratic primary. The two men clashed on nearly every issue: McDermott opposed an oil pipeline under Puget Sound and favored restricting log exports so that the wood could be processed within the state, thereby creating additional jobs; Spellman backed the pipeline and supported the exports. McDermott, a psychiatrist by profession, admitted that projected budget deficits over the next two years (up to $1 billion) might trigger higher...
...travel or return to his favorite recreations, hiking and sailing. Living under the philosophy, "You can't beat the West," Duggan has taken full advantage of the region's resources. He began sailing at the age of five on his father's homemade 19-foot Lightning in Puget Sound and dreams about owning a 45-footer someday...
...city of Seattle is one of the biggest draws that Boeing has to offer. Though its seasons seem perpetually drizzly and Puget Sound's reputation for rain, fog and cradle-to-grave mildew is widespread, Seattle actually has less annual precipitation than New York City, Atlanta and even Houston, a fact that civic boosters take endless delight in pointing out to new arrivals. The region also offers the quiet self-confidence of a major metropolis, complete with civic center, a nationally recognized opera, ballet and theater, and the National Basketball Association champion SuperSonics...
Most of all, Seattle is where one goes to be dazzled by some of the most spectacular big-league nature found anywhere. With Puget Sound on one side and Lake Washington on the other, the city is a panorama of pleasure boaters, skyscrapers, the 1962 World's Fair Space Needle and, looming 60 miles to the southeast, the snow-peaked volcanic cone of Mount Rainier...