But they have since settled more than a score of disputed tracts of their long border.
For them, the formal ski area effectively serves as a jumping-off point, a gateway to vast tracts of challenging off-piste terrain studded with cliff drops, creamy powder stashes, edge-of-your-seat steeps and wide, rolling slopes.
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Following Mr. Weinberger's comments, several of the symposium participants indicated a desire for pro-deterrence analysis that could be used to rebut the NAS study and other nuclear abolition tracts (notably, a joint letter signed by 60 former flag officers last December).
Most of these tracts had undergone a thorough, seven-year-long environmental review.
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In a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, researchers led by Anita Kozyrskyj found that babies born by C-section harbored a different set of microbes in their digestive tracts than those born vaginally, and that infants who were breast-fed had a different recipe of bacteria in their guts than those who were given formula.
Preserving vast tracts of land is a far different activity from backing a promising renewable energy technology, but protecting land is nonetheless important.
Bob Sivinski, program director for the Forest Legacy Program in New Mexico, said that the ranch is like a bridge, a corridor for wildlife between two big tracts of federal land.
Last year, spooked by the idea of foreign sovereign-wealth funds and state-owned firms buying up vast tracts, the government resurrected a 1971 law limiting the amount of rural land foreigners can buy.
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What's in question is whether Moore (1779-1863), a professor of classics at the General Theological Seminary in New York City and member of a prominent family that once owned large tracts of what is now Greenwich Village, is the originator of the lighthearted verse.
Mainland Nova Scotia was said to feel like New England 50 years ago, a friendly, uncrowded maritime paradise with vast tracts of cheap, desirable land.
This is a spot which contains some of the nerve tracts that transmit information from the eyes to the visual cortex at the back of the brain.
"Anyone who thinks I used to spend my holidays reading political tracts should have come with me for a week, " he said.
Other emergency plans call for letting huge tracts of farmland lie fallow to ensure a 50-day supply, in hopes that the drought will break.
If this still seems like nothing more than a bodice ripper with a twist, it is balanced by Bella's near-epic moping at the vicissitudes of love, which supplants for large tracts of the movie the place of a conventional plot.
Conservative journals are full of debates about the meaning of McCainism, and publishing houses are releasing tracts by conservatives trying to point the Party in a new direction.
Both Mr Lafontaine and Mr Hombach published books on economics last year and they read, respectively, like rival tracts by Keynes and Milton Friedman (albeit with a mite less intellectual rigour in both cases).
Huge tracts of forest disappeared under the plough to provide crops for a relentlessly rising population.
Bachmann belongs to a generation of Christian conservatives whose views have been shaped by institutions, tracts, and leaders not commonly known to secular Americans, or even to most Christians.
Nearly four years after a peace was signed in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, wide tracts of the country remain no-go areas, and at least 1m Angolans are still listed as displaced.
They complain of a heavy-handed Egyptian state intruding on their terrain, providing large tracts of land to Cairo-based businessmen and investors, and failing to involve them in developing the region's prosperity.
That has made Ireland, with its large tracts of sparsely populated moorland, rugged mountains and windswept valleys, a perfect setting for many of these challenging, unusual sports.
New tracts of land were created to establish the district of Fontvieille, by effectively building a platform over the sea, with space for new harbor facilities, a stadium, a hotel and a park dedicated to Princess Grace.
Nearly all boast tracts of public open spaces (like parks, beaches and outdoor recreational trails) and a central downtown or main street hub that lends itself to town-sponsored events and parades.
Land-ownership is important in peasant societies, especially so in Zimbabwe, where the pressure of an exploding population is combined with a pattern of holdings not greatly changed from that inherited at independence, and memories endure of the tracts that were awarded by the colonial government to whites.
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In the 1998 case, the Sierra Club successfully challenged a private landowner on the Moose River in Hamilton County to establish the right of paddlers to cross private tracts.
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