• But today, only the Big Bend portion of the river can support the large crane population.

    BBC: Nebraska��s awe-inspiring crane migration

  • In 1990, Poindexter bought Cibolo Creek Ranch, a 30, 000-acre spread near Big Bend National Park in west Texas.

    FORBES: Fighting A Two-Front War

  • Debby finally blew ashore Tuesday afternoon near Steinhatchee in the Big Bend area, the crook of Florida's elbow.

    MSN: Debby aftermath: Flooded homes, busted roads

  • Once, he spent twenty-two days walking across Texas with nothing but a bedroll, a flashlight, and a rifle, from Big Bend, in the west, to Houston, where he was going to deliver a paper at a biology conference.

    NEWYORKER: In the Air

  • As we sat down for a rest around the halfway point, perching on smooth rocks and looking out at a big bend in the Firth, Manny told me about how his mother was one of the key leaders in establishing the land claim agreement that created the park.

    BBC: Camping on the Canadian tundra

  • And it was good also to be back at the Iowa State Fair, although when I was just a candidate, they let me go on the bumper cars. (Laughter.) And I went up on the Big Bend -- you guys ever been on that, where they just shoot you up about 500 feet in the air?

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Big black train comin' 'round the bend.

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  • If the Stresa get-together is any indication, the fate of the euro area's smaller members is to keep up the appearance of solidarity and equality among euro members, while the big economies, such as France and Germany, bend the rules to suit themselves.

    ECONOMIST: Keeping the krona | The

  • In deciding to fight Linux rather than bend with it, Sun is taking another big gamble.

    ECONOMIST: Sun Microsystems

  • That unbalanced partnership has made Washington often seem like a big bully to Mexicans, throwing its disproportionate weight around to bend the rules in its favour.

    BBC: Mexico: Trade in the shadow of Big Brother

  • As the Honduran democrats refused to bend to such coercion, Obama's team dropped the big one: The United States would join the hemisphere's large and growing block of authoritarian nations in refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the election scheduled for the end of this month.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama Doctrine 'coup'

  • These are not big lies, but they are large enough to reward advisers who make a concerted effort to bend the truth about their skills and not get caught.

    FORBES: Why Financial Advisers Lie

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