On the hillside leading down to the cliff face, a swathe of green grass forms a natural amphitheatre.
It concluded water seeping from the cliff face had most likely leaked from a pipe from the nearby McCain factory.
Overhung by a cliff face studded with giant stalactites, the water is illuminated by a narrow strip of sunlight overhead.
Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the government had "slammed on the brakes just before the cliff face".
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As I climb off the boat, a pair of long-tailed macaques, whom I assume are on the payroll, rove the cliff face, sampling white flowers.
The tiny hamlet of Elantxobe, with its colourful houses clasping to an almost sheer cliff face, is undeniably one of the most attractive spots along the entire coast.
The wind rushes along the footpath before them, muting the gentle snapping sound of their sails and of the waves crashing against the cliff face 200 metres below.
The specialist platform for the peregrine adults, set up by the Hawk and Owl Trust on the cathedral's spire in 2011, simulates a cliff face at 75m (246ft) high.
"Failure to carry out the sea wall repairs will leave the cliff face unprotected and would eventually leave Happy Valley Road at risk of collapse into the sea, " it said.
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After about half an hour's hard climb - though it's the donkeys that have done all the work - we reach the Deir, a truly magnificent facade carved massively into a coffee-coloured cliff face.
Now the problem comes, of course, because the closer you are to pension age, the more you hit the sort of cliff face, as it were, and somebody at 59 or in their early sixties with a 65 year old pension age is literally in no really different position than a pensioner.
The monk was a caretaker at the Tiger's Lair, a sacred cave shrine perched high on the cliff-face of a granite mountain.
The Republicans don't want this to happen so the more perilous the prospect of the cliff-face, the more leverage for them, says Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine.
An overnight train from Delhi and a daylong Jeep ride along crumbling cliff-face roads had brought me to Sankri, a hillside outpost on the southern rim of Govind Pashu Vihar National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary.
The World Series kicks-off tonight in San Francisco and millions will tune in to Fox to watch Cliff Lee face-off against Tim Lincucum (Cablevision subscribers will have to find something else to occupy their time as their battle with Fox rages on).
The fiscal cliff also reared its ugly face when it came to labor markets.
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Meanwhile, in the U.S., we face the fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts equal to 5% of GDP should Congress and the President fail to take preemptive action before year end.
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In January, Mr Cameron gave the first hint of a government rethink when he warned of the "cliff edge" some families might face with the removal of child benefit for all top-rate taxpayers.
But in recent years knots of people often gathered there to watch an odder creature creeping, by feet and hands alone, across the high sheer face of boulder, buttress or cliff.
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Such behavior is all the more irresponsible in the face of evidence uncovered by the intrepid Cliff Kincaid of America's Survival: environmental and other plaintiffs' lawyers are preparing precisely the sorts of suits of which Tom Donahue warns - doing so for the day when the U.S. accedes to the Treaty and can be targeted.
Politicians face a eleventh-hour effort to fix the fiscal cliff, a series of tax increases and spending cuts that could push the U.S. into a recession next year.
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It is highly unlikely that the steps that will be taken prior to December 31, 2012 if any to avoid the cliff will be a total resolution of the many questions that we face when it comes to tax policy and how it impacts on the long-term solution to our debt problem.
And while most of the fiscal cliff was averted, the U.S. economy, and consumers, will need to face two additional cliffs, as my colleague Abram Brown explained.
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You see one single flower nodding on a cliff side far across the canyon, or a huge knot in a redwood tree looking like Zeus' face, or some of God's little crazy creations goofing around in creek pools (zigzag bugs), or a sign on a lonely fence saying 'M.
Our focus right now is working to see if we can reach an agreement that helps us avoid the so-called fiscal cliff and also achieves a broader deal, which would address this longer-term deficit challenge that we face in a way that helps the economy grow and create jobs.
It was a hopeful speech, especially for a president who returns to Washington tomorrow to face the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, as well as the approach of the so-called Fiscal Cliff and a sharply divided Congress with Democrats retaining the Senate and the GOP holding the House.
Crude oil is back on the rise in the face of slowing demand, a possible breakup of the European Union, and the threat of the fiscal cliff sending the U.S. back into recession.
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