Word: hike
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...Riley says the Bible tells him a hike is needed. The state faces a $675 million debt and not much left in services to cut. Alabama has an education system that ranks 49th in the country, prisons designed for 12,000 inmates that now have 27,000 crammed in them, and so few state troopers that after midnight only a half dozen patrol 67,500 miles of road. The state?s regressive tax system, whose burden now falls heaviest on low-income earners, is ?immoral,? he says. ?And taking care of the poor is the right thing...
...When Tennessee was staggered by budget shortfalls in 2001, then Republican Gov. Don Sundquist proposed an income tax for state residents instead of another hike in the sales tax, which was already one of the highest in the country. The GOP all but disowned him, conservative talk show hosts began vilifying him and a mob gathered on the Capitol?s steps in Nashville hurling rocks that crashed through his window. An embittered Sundquist settled for another penny hike in the sales tax then left office when his term ended last January, refusing to campaign for the Republican candidate who wanted...
...more 10x zoom cameras--Fujifilm's 3.1-megapixel FinePix S5000 and Kodak's 4-megapixel EasyShare DX6490--hit the market for the same price. Most digital cameras have zoom lenses only up to 4x; the extra magnification is a real performance boost. Now when you're on a nature hike and spot that yellow-bellied sapsucker, you can get right in his beak--without startling him from his perch. --By Wilson Rothman
Davis' chances of surviving weren't looking so great even before Schwarzenegger entered the race. With Californians blaming him for the epic budget problems that have brought a tripling of vehicle-license fees, a 30% hike in state college fees and cutbacks in health services, polls in recent weeks had shown that more than 50% of Californians would support his recall. Weeks ago, California's Democratic House members had privately decided among themselves that, as one put it, "Davis was gone, and this was getting dangerous for us." While Davis had been on the phone constantly consulting with House Democratic...
...next day, we take a bus to the Pyrenees—Devin to hike into Spain, me to research at the foot of glaciers. When I come back to Lourdes a few days later to finish my work, I have no thunderous emotional reaction. Lourdes is old hat, and I’m all business. I check off addresses and check out new restaurants for Let’s Go. Finally, I’m ready to leave...