Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curling team is 55, and his teammates are his son, his brother-in-law and his brother-in-law's son. The Winter Games are for anomalies and curiosities: children everywhere dream of running faster, jumping higher and swimming better than their friends. But of shooting down an icy slope at 70 m.p.h. on their backs? Or skiing as fast as they can around some loops, then stopping and shooting at a target while lying on the ground? Or curling...
...slopes themselves are excellent. Sunday River makes a lot of snow, so the only time a skier will encounter icy trails is maybe the first ten or so feet of a black diamond or double black diamond slope. On a windy day, the snow on top of the mountain gets blown off. The trails are always very well covered past that. For a little excitement, many of the trails are only half groomed, leaving moguls for the adventurous skier. White Heat, the double black diamond trail, is a must ski. For the experienced skier. Sunday River also offers some very...
...might not know it, but Val d'Isere in the "Haute Savoie" is a world class ski resort and it is the biggest ski resort in Europe. It has so many slopes that you could ski through for a week without taking the same slope twice...
Beijing is skittish enough these days to consider any concession to the West as a step onto a slippery slope. For his part, Bush is fighting efforts in Congress to eliminate China's most favored nation trading status because of its human rights abuses. To fend it off, he needs evidence that the Chinese are ready to improve their behavior at home and abroad...
Clearly, something is wrong with allowing doctors to perform "aid-in-dying." At least in the Dutch case, the quasi-legalization of euthanasia has led to a slippery slope. There are few reasons to believe that American doctors would be less tempted to play God with their patients than the Dutch...