Word: slopes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that the states are autonomous anymore, economically or politically? Who can pretend that the federal government should cede its power to assure basic needs across the country to decentralized, parochial and inefficient authorities? Apparently, the same people who last year at this time waited for the Laffer Curve to slope off of a napkin and on to their bank statements. They took the tax cut and ran leaving without even fulfilling their side of the bargain--restoring business confidence...
...rationale for the pipeline has been that the country needs Alaska's gas in order to become more energy independent. The 26 trillion cu. ft. under Alaska's North Slope are equal to 13% of U.S. proven reserves and could reduce foreign-oil imports by at least...
...employees clinging to, but increasingly sliding down the slippery slope of the Laffer curve. As the relentless logic of supply-side economics becomes clearer--that the rich will get richer while the poor grow pooer--strikes will increasingly come to be seen as a necessary tactic. And the "New Beginning" so carefully constructed by the forces of conservatism will crumble, buckling under the weight of the expectations it raised...
Martinson, St. Peter and 16 others dug their spiked ice crampons into the glacier and worked their way to the edge to avoid being swept into a crevasse. But the car-sized chunks swept eleven of their companions farther down the slope and crushed them under tons of ice. Some were buried by as much as 80 ft. of debris. A rescue party, arriving the next day, could not find any sign of the missing eleven and doubted they ever would...
...specializing in assaults on Mount Hood's 11,235-ft. peak. At the 10,500-ft. level on the dormant volcano's northeast face, one or more of the 17-member party slipped. The climbers, roped together in groups for safety, tumbled 2,000 ft. down the slope...