It was hard not to be impressed by Mr. Jackson: his forthright manner, his restless intellect, his towering stature (put to good use in the old Kendall-Jackson ads, in which he was invariably photographed in front of a mountain one that he owned, of course).

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Instead, I am an economist and business person and I see an economic mountain looming in front of the U.S. I only wish I could explain why Washington insists on flying straight into the mountain rather than pulling up.

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In front of me, a small chapel was built into the side of the mountain.

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Many in South Africa believe man-mountain Sheridan will be used to target a perceived weakness in the Springboks front row, where captain John Smit has been converted to tight-head from his former hooking role.

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It was perched on the slope of a minor mountain, about a third of the way up, with thick slabs of rock stuck under the front side, a new rock every year, to keep the house from tumbling forward into the fields of wild raspberries.

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