For all of our sakes, Republicans have to find their way out of the box canyon.

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It sits in a box canyon and is small but has everything you need: shops, restaurants, bars, etc.

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The Aspen Pitkin Co. airport is surrounded by high mountains on three sides, so it is in something of a box canyon.

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They can always filibuster the final bill if they want to, but it makes no sense to paint themselves into a political box canyon before even knowing what they're voting on.

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Then they were at the penultimate turn, the box canyon just ahead, and the little town corralled within, its waterfall tumbling reliably at the precise center of the backdrop, a landscape painting by a sentimental artist.

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He has described it as the legislative equivalent for his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill as a box canyon, meaning the sort of naturally occurring, dead-ending geological formation used by Indians and desperados in the Wild West to trap and snare their prey.

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Box 364, LaPorte, CO 80535, or call Canyon Utilities at 970-881-2262 to make a credit card donation to the department.

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The box on the table, the table in the house, the house in the town, the town in the canyon.

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