The U.S. editors I wrote for accepted the Berlin Wall as something permanent and geological, like a mountain range.
He splashed over to the foot of the stairs and looked up at a ladder of water coming down, a scrim of ice on the edges like a mountain stream.
Like a mountain lion, I thought.
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Buffett thinks the 2000-2015 market will regress, like a downdraft off a mountain, until it aligns with history's average.
Taking an organization to scale is like climbing a mountain.
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So what the heck was I doing buying a stock like Green Mountain in the first place, which had a PE (based on trailing 12 month EPS) a little above 60 when I made my purchase?
At worst it looked like a stock swindle built on a mountain of mathematical nonsense.
At inspired moments, she performed her criticism like a driver cruising down a familiar mountain road: braking rarely, speeding around the tricky turns, and swerving, with the faith of instinct, through a maze of potholes.
But it is miniscule progress, like a toy shovel of sand being removed from a mountain.
While YouTube serves a lot of functions (like watching an unsuspecting mountain biker get leveled by a gazelle), one of those functions is dispersing innovation.
Once it gets started, trying to stop deflation is a lot like trying to halt a boulder bounding down a mountain.
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Working my way around this tumor with a ten-millimetre camera on the end of a foot-and-a-half-long wand was like trying to find my way around a mountain with a penlight.
Regardless of when, why and how Facebook decided to make these changes, they do make the Palo Alto social network a lot more like its Mountain View competitor.
Haul bags are affectionately called pigs because when you're pulling one up a pitch it feels like you might as well be dragging a hog up a mountain.
Like running a marathon or summiting a mountain, hiking 60 miles in a week while adhering to an ascetic diet is a chance to prove what you're made of.
An important distinction is that alpha-gal is not a disease like Lyme disease or Rocky Mountain spotted fever -- it is an allergy.
This is partly a question of feasibility: Meetup is too small to do anything to New York, and even Google is not big enough to truly own even a smaller Bay Area city like Mountain View.
In case you can't make use of Flyover, you should be able to take advantage of 3D view, which comes complete with Google Earth-like topographical capabilities -- pan over a mountain, for instance, and you can see the various canyons, slopes and other details.
Okemo Mountain Resort in Vermont hasn't seen a winter quite like this in about 30 years, said Bonnie MacPherson, the mountain's director of public relations, who sent a videographer onto the slopes before Christmas to ask skiers to show off their best snow dances.
This is like trying to get a clear picture of a mountain by examining individual pebbles.
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Mountain Village has a feel like Beaver Creek, with plazas and a skating rink and heated sidewalks.
While both teams were telling a story in the same universe, Stern said the creative process was like digging a tunnel through opposite sides of a mountain to meet in the center.
The clouds sporadically open up a bit to reveal a village, a chunk of a mountain, a patch of jungle, before obscuring them from view again, like stage scenery sliding into the wings.
However, like other opposition parties, the Labour party has a mountain to climb before it can become a serious threat to the ruling CCM.
Early on, Rays became somewhat of a mecca for mountain bikers as nothing else like it existed.
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Over the past year a trickle of Google alums like Lepe have left the Mountain View, Calif.
If you perform well as an apprentice, guiding on Mount Rainier is a likely assignment before heading to a peak like Aconcagua, South America's highest mountain.
Over the past year a trickle of Google alums like Lepe have left the Mountain View, California Internet search-and-advertising company to start or invest in companies of their own.
Like Setiawan, anyone building a business in Indonesia must climb a mountain of permits and licenses.
The right piece can rejuvenate a stale pursuit or, in the best cases, it can elevate our own game like the way a lighter bike frame can get us up the mountain or a better-shaped pair of skis can get us down it.
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