Word: sloping
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Only two months after the eruption, small green parsley ferns and skunk cabbage were found pushing through the volcanic ash in sheltered areas along a creek on the mountain slope. Now the pink flowers of fireweed, a low-growing bush that is traditionally one of the first plants to colonize disturbed areas, have begun to add a touch of color to slopes and clear areas, still covered with ash and mud. Lupines are beginning to grow along erosion channels. Tiny fir trees, freed from competition with their fallen parents, are expected to take advantage of the extra sunlight and make...
Chanting "No draft, no war. U.S. out of El Salvador." the demonstrators circled back toward the Lincoln Memorial and walked slowly across Memorial Bridge to the grassy slope facing the north side of the Pentagon...
...confronted a President in public, a heretofore forbidden gambit in power survival. Then he brushed aside another old maxim: if you have to claim pre-eminence publicly, you have already lost it. In the past, such pronouncements have often been the point of no return down the slippery slope toward the premature opportunity to go back to high pay, lush fringe benefits and absolute authority in the old firm. The odd thing is that when it happens not many people so honored seem to enjoy their liberation...
...overlapping that occur when mountain ranges are forced upward through sedimentary rock. Some oilmen estimate that such formations in the Western Overthrust states could hold as much as 13 billion bbl. of crude, or more than two-thirds of the amount that might be contained in the Alaskan North Slope...
...announced, the company's stock was trading for about $27 a share; Sohio is willing to pay about $62. The acquisition also looks promising for Sohio, the U.S.'s 14th largest refiner. The company owns 33% of the trans-Alaska pipeline and has been turning North Slope crude into cash. Last year it had profits of $1.8 billion on revenues of $ 11 billion. Sohio, which already owns some coal and uranium mining operations, has been looking around recently for profitable places to spend its spare cash...