There are only a few restaurants in the Big Sky base area and just one at Moonlight Basin: Others require a 15-minute drive or longer.

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As Sky's subscription base grew, programmers and rights holders knew that distribution meant dealing with Sky.

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That buyer would most likely come from within the client base of existing Sky customers.

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Besides being off base, the sky-is-falling theory portends two troubling outcomes.

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Middleton notes that December 2007 will see the opening of 60 ski-in, ski-out suites at the base of Big Sky, units expressly designed for slope-side entertaining.

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Dramatic video playing over and over on TV and the internet of a cargo 747 aircraft falling out of the sky shortly after take- off at Bagram Air Base has left some nervous fliers even more nervous that this could happen on a passenger airline.

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Sky also indicated that less than 5% of its broadband customer base used the affected exchanges.

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It was a somewhat rectangular loop that took us through deserts, mountains, forests, adobe villages, big cities, college towns, and nowhere truck stop areas where every bordering rusted RV seemed a home base for would-be Walters and Jesses cooking up their next batch of Blue Sky.

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