The bus swerved on a stretch of road, lost control and plummeted 400 metres from a cliff into the Sunkosi river, police told the BBC.
Italians understood the gravity of their economic situation in November 2011 when Mario Monti was appointed, and were prepared to make sacrifices to help pull their country back from a cliff.
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The rich diversity is also apparent in locales such as a river that springs from a limestone cliff, where one can engage in quiet contemplation amid the sound of gushing whitewater worthy of a kayaking epic, or an ocean beach where surfers share the sand with camels and casbahs.
For my administration, it meant a series of emergency measures that I would not have undertaken under normal circumstances, but that were necessary to stop our economy from falling off a cliff.
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Or to put it another way, it is hard to see how the eurozone convoy can or will do a u-turn on the road to ruin, unless and until that convoy sees that it is minutes away from driving over a cliff.
Taking a step away from the fiscal cliff, we have a data-filled economic calendar today.
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Once, a team member came across a bone sticking out from the bottom of a recently eroded cliff.
It's going to take us through 2009, assuming we don't fall off a cliff from something unforeseen, but then we'll start to recover.
Comedians Ken Dodd and Bobby Ball will also speak in Mosley's memory and entertainer Syd Little will read a letter from Sir Cliff Richard.
The baleful thesis arises from concerns both that a cliff lies beyond any peak in production and that alternatives to oil will not be available.
However, should Boehner allow the full House vote to go forward, despite his inability to get a majority of Republicans to support the legislation, his sparing the nation from a fall from the cliff could come at the cost of his job as Speaker.
Thus, despite all of the political efforts, the impact of the tax side of the fiscal cliff negotiations for the middle class may be a world virtually indistinguishable from the pre-cliff world.
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And relative quiet out of Washington, after more than a week of fiscal cliff rhetoric, offered a welcome break from speculation over the likelihood of a deal.
Were he to do this, I strongly suspect he will be able to deliver the small number of Republicans necessary to join with the House Democrats to pass a bill to avert going over the cliff and go from goat status to that of a national statesman.
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Any settlement would have been only a temporary step back from the cliff.
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It's hard to beat sunset cocktails at Austin's Oasis, where tiered decks jut from a 450-foot-high cliff over Lake Travis.
Across the bay from Rio, it perches on a cliff-top - an upturned flying saucer, its curves reflected in a pool which encircles its central pillar.
If a skier is pushed off a cliff, gets stuck in a divot or suffers trauma from hitting rocks or trees, an airbag deployment may be useless.
Congress and the president have to find a way to pull back from the cliff.
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But each of them, on the simpler measure of gross leverage - that unweighted ratio of loans to capital - was a nano-distance away from the cliff edge.
But arithmetically, it's nowhere near enough to re-balance the economy, especially when domestic investment is still weak, and the income we earn from our investments abroad has fallen off a cliff.
They had been jumping from the cliff into the sea, when a swell swept 11 of their party away.
"Even if cloning begins with a benign purpose, it could lead to scientific categories of superior and inferior people, " said Rep. Cliff Stearns, a Republican from Florida.
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.
Mr Fuller, who had a degree in molecular biology, was found dead at the foot of a 60ft (18m) cliff with a fractured skull and other injuries consistent with a fall from height.
Reid also could take a different revenue-raising bill from the House and rewrite it as a tax and spending measure to address fiscal cliff issues, the sources explained.
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"He's been on the verge of failure a dozen times and always pulls back from the cliff, " Schulman says.
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