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• Marketing

Milton Brand on his study ...

• Legal

A political action committee that produces results.  ...

• Legal

Indictment cites 110 counts against ski area principals.  ...

• Ski School

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• Area Management

In a provocative interview with Paul Robbins, Killington's Smith maintains that ski industry problems could be lessened through understanding.  ...

• Ski Area Profiles

This great mountain once had skiing; now two potential developers are in a head-to-head conflict over who can bring it back. Chaco Mohler gives an in-depth report.  ...

• Lifts

A photographic sampling of some of the interesting new lifts, from T-bar to the world's biggest gondola.  ...

• Lifts

Generally a good year for lift construction, but there remain a few pockets of slower growth.  ...

• Lifts

Who said it can't be done? At Wintergreen, four men put up a lift in seven working days. A fascinating day-by-day chronology of the construction.  ...

SAM"s annual report on the state of the ski industry has two new authors: C. R. Goeldner and Thor Groswold. For most of the country they say, last year was good to excellent.  ...

• Safety

This brand new way of pin-pointing ski accidents on the slopes almost eliminates one of the nagging variables in making reports. By Robert G. Shepard Jr. and John J. Lindsay.  ...

• Lifts

How much wind is too much? Lew Cuyler asked ski area authorities and found that standards and measurement procedures are limired and highly variable.  ...