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...least $250,000 for the gala at the same time he was getting the task force's blessing for incentives to build 38,000 miles of new pipeline. Nuclear-industry officials gave $150,000 while landing support for a waste-burial site-Bush later chose Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Former Representative Bill Paxon and another lawyer whose firm works for Exxon Mobil raised at least $100,000 apiece as the oil giant was persuading the panel to back a review of trade sanctions...
Dearaujo also said that Democrats were making a “mountain out of a mole hill” over the abortion issue, saying Romney has made his pro-choice stance clear...
...Afghan allies under General Ziahuddin --Special forces scouts and snipers --10th Mountain Division blocks ravine exits at battle positions Heather and Ginger --A Chinook helicopter crashes on the mountain to the east of Ginger --101st Airborne Division and Afghan forces sweep in --Army's 10th Mountain Division at battle position Eve blocks eastern pass
...writing in. There were dot paintings, square paintings, crosshatch paintings and linear ones. The grammar of his compositions was always explicit but, at the same time, often surprising. He loved ruins, ideal scenery, viaducts, pyramids and everything that seemed both ancient and vulnerable: the stability of the pyramidal mountain in Ad Parnassum, 1932 (which translates as "To Parnassus," the mythical mountain of Apollo and the Muses), is decidedly undermined by being constructed from a faux mosaic of minuscule tiles of color...
...islands are in fact the tail end of the Arakan Yoma mountain range. The submerged peaks cover a 1,000-km arc from Burma to Sumatra, surrounded on all sides by deep ocean. Divers and snorkelers can swim with all the usual reef crowd?butterfly fish, blue napoleons, sea anemones, snapper and brightly colored parrot fish?and also encounter larger visitors from deeper waters, like blue and sperm whales, dolphins, sharks, tuna and marine turtles. The area is a favored haunt of the endangered dugong, a cousin of the manatee, that feeds in the sea grasses of the shallow coastal...