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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"They don't believe it's going to happen, because every time we come up to the debt ceiling or the fiscal cliff or the sequester, the government just passes the next bill, " said Mr. Herman, who is a Casa Grande City Council member.
The tax increase on the dividends or Fiscal Cliff Cost (FCC) has a small impact on the total return of the overall performance over a day, week or even a year.
You never know what the European debt crisis or the fiscal cliff might lead to.
We will see today's political battles over gun control or the fiscal cliff in the high-pressure machinations.
The 2013 American Tax Relief Act (aka ATRA or the fiscal cliff deal) is a big complicated law.
You might say the question is whether they will put a fence at the top of the cliff or an ambulance at the bottom.
But according to the researchers, the most convincing argument is that gullies always start about 100 m below the top of a cliff or crater.
They happen whether they are due to our elected leaders failing to reach an agreement regarding the Fiscal Cliff or the credit markets freezing up or a currency crisis or a large hedge fund imploding.
If the peak were a cliff or if it arrived soon, this would certainly be true, since alternative fuels have only a tiny global market share today (though they are quite big in markets, such as ethanol-mad Brazil, that have favourable policies).
The question over the next four years is not whether the U.S. will survive the fiscal cliff or go the way of Greece, it is whether Democrats and Republicans will play their role of Hatfields and McCoys for television cameras, or go together up the hill and through the valley to get this country moving.
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And he talked not about the fiscal cliff or Benghazi, but he spoke very -- from his heart, very much from his heart about how much he appreciated the young people, especially in that office, who had worked so hard on that campaign and how in his eyes those young people represented a promise about America's future that is very inspiring.
The fiscal cliff deal delays or prevents some of the worst consequences of the cliff from taking place, but not all of them.
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No-one was injured, but Mr Davies warned that people should exercise "great care" when walking on cliff paths or along beaches.
We can no longer make believe that the fiscal cliff resolution or evolution will represent a bad economy becoming a good economy.
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The impending fiscal cliff may or may not become a reality but the sense of doom is driven by the fear that dividends will become taxable at much higher rates.
Chat rooms let readers hash out their favorite ways to cook lobster, behave in a Filipino home or rappel off a cliff, and Ehow gets a 10% to 25% cut of the ads that run nearby.
The authors even identified a universal "tipping point" in the life cycle of new words: Roughly 30 to 50 years after their birth, they either enter the long-term lexicon or tumble off a cliff into disuse.
Or were fiscal-cliff-informed doubts already there?
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The wait and see attitude of business and consumers regarding the fiscal cliff, which has been creating the recent weakness in economic reports, would likely take a decided turn for the better again if a reasonable compromise is reached to avoid the cliff, or at least kick it down the road again.
The real damage, though significant, will not be caused by the fiscal Cliff, Europe or even the economy.
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Along the coast path, walkers stroll through thickets of gorse, stopping occasionally to raise their binoculars skywards or peer gingerly over the cliff edge into the foaming waves 90m below.
Mr Smith also said incidents such as rescuing children who get into difficulty, cliff falls, or recovering those who have had heart attacks in remote places could become less efficient.
But this week the market rallied sharply, the Dow up 3.2% for the week, reflecting mounting confidence that politicians are coming to their senses and will succeed in hammering out a compromise that will either resolve the fiscal cliff threat, or more probably succeed in kicking it down the road to next summer.
Whether or not America tumbles over the cliff on Monday night one thing is clear - the country's political system is broken.
These events are unlikely to happen, unless the fiscal cliff talks fail entirely or, if they do, no remedial action is taken in the early 2013.
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Overhead, gulls and gannets ride the thermals or roost in noisy colonies on the cliff faces.
And they haven't changed their mind as a result of the election, or the scary talk about the fiscal cliff.
Whether or not the Bolivarian Revolution succeeded in fulfilling its promises or whether it has created a fiscal cliff has less weight than the loyalties and identification of its followers.
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