Overhead, gulls and gannets ride the thermals or roost in noisy colonies on the cliff faces.

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Lauterbrunnen, with its high cliff faces, is one of the world's most popular areas for expert base jumpers.

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Where large boulders, vertiginous cliff faces and impenetrable gorges force the path to divert, it follows the shortest route around the obstacle back to the next breathtaking vista.

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Google, a service-software construct before the Motorola phone acquisition faces no earnings cliff.

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Like some peers, it faces a patent cliff with very profitable drugs facing competition from generics, but Lilly spends aggressively to develop replacements.

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He now faces an immediate crisis again: the fiscal cliff.

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Before any of this comes to fruition the single most important task the president faces: Stopping the country going over the fiscal cliff.

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