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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"No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity, " Knox said.
Indeed, research has long shown that people with high HDL levels face fewer heart attacks.
The larger banks still face high borrowing costs, so they are happy to use the ECB's three-year funds.
The downturn will make it particularly difficult for smaller manufacturing firms that already face high competition at home and abroad.
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Developing markets that still face high levels of social inequalities may struggle to embrace the temporary nature of such employment.
In addition High Street stores face greater rivalry from online outlets, with internet spending tipped to grow by 40% this Christmas period.
In baseball, the pressure is most acute with minor league clubs that face high overhead costs relative to ticket and sponsorship revenue.
Uncertainty abounds over the makeup of Congress as well, and either presidential candidate could face high hurdles to winning support for his agenda.
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But those who want to sell conventional drugs face high hurdles.
Even traditional over-the-air radio broadcasters, who are legally exempt from paying performance royalties, now face high fees if they update their business models with online radio offerings.
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Small and medium-sized businesses face high raw-materials prices and rising labour costs, but miss out on the low electricity prices and tax advantages enjoyed by big firms.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has told her legislature that the Sooner State will face high economic hurdles in the future if it is an income-tax sandwich between Texas and Kansas.
The precision of the Brussels heist suggests extensive help from airport insiders, said air-security experts, who noted that all airports employ thousands of low-paid workers and face high staff turnover.
While Mali will seek to reach the semifinals for the second tournament in a row against Bafana Bafana in Durban, Ghana will face high fliers Cape Verde in Saturday's first quarterfinal.
In Britain, banks still face high borrowing costs and remain nervous about lending more to small and medium-sized enterprises: a new credit-easing programme about to be introduced by the BoE and the Treasury is long overdue.
Canada's banks face high capital requirements and a cap on their leverage, such that their assets cannot exceed 20 times their capital (a lot less than the corresponding figure for many Wall Street firms and European banks).
Susan Block and her father had the conversation that we all need to have when the chemotherapy stops working, when we start needing oxygen at home, when we face high-risk surgery, when the liver failure keeps progressing, when we become unable to dress ourselves.
And the US economy has also proven surprisingly resilient in the face of high energy prices.
They are seeking to have westernized face, high profile nose, slender nice cheekbone, and mandible bone.
Now, in the face of high oil prices and a softening car market, Goodyear is setting sales records.
Meanwhile, there are signs that demand, although not falling, is growing more slowly in the face of high prices.
Today the people in the US who face punishingly high marginal tax rates are blue-collar and middle-income workers, not investors and entrepreneurs.
But the Crisis, heavier competition from its neighbors and constant change in the industry is changing the face of high-tech in Singapore.
Even with its return, some supermarkets in New Zealand were rationing supplies to two jars per customer in the face of high demand.
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Coca-Cola (KO) is one bellwether name that continues to impress with earnings and climb higher, even in the face of high commodity price headwinds.
Bluebirds chairman Peter Ridsdale says he is still "confident" the club will pay its bills before having to face the High Court on 10 February.
Perhaps the biggest problem Mr Uribe will face is high expectations.
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