Nameless waterfalls tumble down from the plateau above, while the shadows of clouds dance across treeless slopes.
Most companies today operate on the plateau rather than going after the big innovation, according to Govindarajan.
Eventually the path reaches the edge of the plateau and drops dramatically towards the coastal town of Kas.
The plateau up ahead was the setting for one of the oldest and strangest of all the Ladin legends.
Higher up on the plateau, Arctic buntings, ptarmigan and golden eagles can be glimpsed, while the mountain scrub is adorned with rare plants such as globeflower and roseroot.
During the wet, water cascades off the plateau and submerges thousands of acres of the Top End, turning dozens of sandstone outcrops such as Ubirr into little islands.
Despite the plateau in smoking rates in men in the 1980s and their subsequent decrease, men still have an increased risk of death due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
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Dr Pettitt said it is uncertain whether the mammoths and woolly rhinos fell from the plateau above the cave or whether Neanderthal hunters drove them over the edge of the cliff deliberately.
From the initial Technology Trigger, when software first made blogging easy, to the Peak of Inflated Expectations and the Trough of Disillusionment, thence on to the Slope of Enlightenment and, eventually, the Plateau of Productivity, blogging has passed almost all the way through the Hype Cycle.
The glaciers in the south-eastern part of the plateau, by contrast, are downwind of the Indian subcontinent and Dr Xu found that the concentration of soot in those glaciers went up by 30% between 1990 and 2003, coinciding with a period of rapid industrial growth in India.
On the Dixam plateau, the men huddled around the fire were of two minds.
Of all the ancient civilisations that rose and fell on the Anatolian plateau, the Lycians were the most enigmatic.
If you pay below the minimum plateau, the credit card company will treat you as if you paid nothing and apply penalties and delinquency.
One March day, as soon as she had finished her housework, Jeanne Bousque headed off toward the Pelgrin property, on the high plateau above the village.
Even if Cowen is wrong about the pitch of the technological plateau and the severity of income stagnation, he has nonetheless put radical innovation and economic growth back on the map.
But in one, a formation known as Cobrahead, on the Aristarchus Plateau at the edge of the Ocean of Storms, Clementine's cameras saw a definite reddening of a sinuous feature called a rille.
As well as the bitter cold, they will have to cope with life on the Antarctic Plateau, with the reduced levels of oxygen that comes from being located at 3, 800 meters (12, 470 feet) equivalent altitude.
In the distance, the craggy lines of the Arnhem plateau stand out against the azure sky.
The Polar Plateau is one of the most inhospitable places on Earth.
Resources are scarce because of the harsh environment of the highland plateau and limited agricultural space in the lowlands.
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Exposure to extreme cold: the Antarctic Plateau, which will be crossed, is the world's largest and coldest desert with extremely low humidity and the expedition will involve prolonged periods of exposure to extreme cold below -70C.
Lookouts along the Springbrook plateau offer sensational views, but one of the best is the aptly named Best of All Lookout from where you can see the once-buried volcanic plug, Mount Warning (1, 156m) across the border in New South Wales.
However the central plateau (1, 000 meters of altitude) and the formation of radial and deep ravines is the result of intense erosion.
It's the tibial plateau fracture that will need a much closer look and is the wild card in how long recovery may take, doctors say.
That hardly sounds an environmentalist's prescription, but some argue the sustainable harvesting of the Nakai plateau's trees would bring Laos as much money as the dam, at less risk.
But on the basis of the new plateau of capacity, we can change that, whilst keeping intact the ethos of public service.
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