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Eric began spending much of his time in the mountains above Lake Tahoe. He was on a perpetual vacation: "It's great living around a resort; you spend all your time with sports." Klaussen uses his time in the mountains to take photographs, hike, do technical climbing and practice ski mountaineering, a sport that uses cross country skiis with metal edges, and strapped-on climbing skins to hike up and down the mountain...
...whole affair left Wall Street slightly dazed. Within minutes, the new stock leaped from its offering price of $35 a share to $89. As thousands of buyers bid for a piece of the action, brokerage houses had to resort to strict rationing. When a Beverly Hills matron demanded 100 shares, her broker apologetically explained that he could give her only...
...accelerating waltz of death takes place against a gilded backdrop of a country villa, with the late summer afternoon plink and plonk of tennis matches offstage, and a snowbound resort hotel in the Dolomites. Mark Lamos, in his auspicious debut season as artistic director of the Hartford Stage Company, has boldly chosen to set his stage so sparely that some of the claustrophobic density of the drama is diluted. But he has distanced his characters from each other in their most intimate encounters so that what playgoers feel most acutely is the frosty chill around their dead souls...
...antiballistic missile (ABM) system. The 1972 treaty limiting ABMs-the only strategic arms limitation agreement that is still formally in force-might be renegotiated so as to permit selective ABM protection of U.S. missile silos. Tampering with the present ABM treaty, however, should be considered strictly as a last resort. If such renegotiation of the 1972 treaty failed, the result might be an ABM race. That would surely accelerate the ICBM competition. It is only logical that more and better offensive weapons would be necessary to penetrate more and better defenses. It would also increase the hair-trigger mentality...
Blanchard charges more than $1,000 a person for his elegant sessions, which are held in Bermuda and other resort spots...