Word: hike
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...Late in the day we hike up a steep ascent into the quiet shadows of a stand of pines. The name of the path?Leading the Ox Up By Its Nose?exactly describes the gradient. A statue of Kannon with a horse's head commemorates the pack animals whom no amount of nasal persuasion could keep from collapse. That night we stay in Hosokute at a wooden inn, last rebuilt in 1880. Swallows nest inside the doorway, as they have for generations. The floor flexes under our feet as we step gingerly across knotholes and gaps in the boards...
...charge of U.S. monetary policy. He took lawmakers through the boom and the bust that followed so closely behind, from the inventory imbalances to the layoffs to the housing market to the high-tech bubble. He even lingered a moment to explain - again - why that last 50-point rate hike in May 2000 was a good idea at the time...
...office at Via Roma 35, just behind the piazza, and get maps for a bracing walk along the shore. A short path, 20 minutes each way, will take you past the church and castle of San Giorgio to the local lighthouse at the tip of a promontory. A longer hike brings you to the 10th century Abbey of San Fruttuoso. It's two hours each way--but worth every minute for the spectacular vistas...
...hike up Red Creek Road, a nine-mile zigzag up the side of Red Table Mountain in Colorado's White River National Forest, is to experience what yoga classes aspire to visualize. You wind through canopies of blue spruce trees to emerge in soft meadows of swaying wildflowers. A gurgling stream escorts the trail, and silvery sagebrush perfumes...
...Then the Commerce Department reported that retail sales continued to squeak up, rising 0.2 percent in June after May's upwardly revised 0.4 percent hike. That was a soft number, but look at what kept the overall number in positive territory - auto sales. Those about to tighten their belts do not buy new cars. And the University of Michigan's respected consumer sentiment index rose to 93.7 percent in July, according to a Reuters report, compared with a reading of 92.6 percent in June...