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...says Toni, "is really the ability to .think ahead. A good skier looks as far ahead as possible. In my mind's eye, I'm looking even farther ahead than with my eyes. When I'm doing the Streif, I'm already thinking of the steep drop while my skis are still in the 'Mousetrap.' When I'm on the Lärchen-hand, my eyes are on the Oberhausberg, and my mind is on the final schuss...
Another big complaint is that airlines and trucks use public airfields and highways for a relatively small fee, while railroads must pay steep taxes and maintenance for every mile of rail. New Jersey alone collects an average $9,511 annually for every mile of line; the 13 railroads serving New Jersey pay $1.67 in state taxes for every $1 worth of business they pick up in the state. On top of that, railroadmen point to other special taxes, e.g., a federal railroad retirement tax, figured at of employee earnings v. only 2% for other industries, plus...
...minor difficulties in the path of those who would woo and conquer her. Each year in the climbing season some 75,000 mountaineers flock to the resort town of Chamonix to have a try at scaling her heights, and most of them succeed. But in the winter, when her steep slopes are swept by gales often reaching 100 miles an hour and the temperature drops below zero, the icy-hearted mountain becomes a fickle and merciless termagant. Few, even among expert mountain climbers, care to risk her treachery in the off season, and to those who do, the professional guides...
Northward the steep world rises to Scythia And south of Libya descends, where black Styx and the lowest of the dead look...
...soon clear that Nehru had only been waiting for his tea to steep. On his first night in Manhattan he went before the United Nations General Assembly and poured it on-5,500 words. Eloquently, he dwelt (as he often does) on his recollections of Mohandas Gandhi: "Now, the major lesson that Mr. Gandhi impressed upon us was how to do things, apart from what we did ... how to proceed in attaining an objective ... so as not to create a fresh problem in the attempt to solve one problem: never to deal with the enemy in such...