The climate resembles a perfect English summer's day: skies are blue and the valleys are lush.
John Kerry stood in the valleys and shadows of death in the Mekong Delta.
That move left the valleys hotbed without a fully professional team and alienated many supporters.
The A465 Heads of the Valleys "dualling" programme has been split into six sections.
Features include cave hamams (Turkish baths), rock-cut arches, walls patterned with volcanic colour-banding and panoramic terraces surveying the valleys.
"Oddly enough, I think you learn from the valleys of life rather than the peaks, " Sanford said.
Hardest hit were villages further up the valleys, where farmers grow rice, vegetables and corn on terraced plots.
Most shepherds graze sheep, some yaks, but many also have a herd of horses left to wander the valleys throughout summer.
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There's Ionia Nisia, Sterea Ellada and Peloponnisos, all scoring higher than West Wales, all more competitive than the valleys.
Problems are also reported across much of Rhondda Cynon Taf, the A465 Heads Of The Valleys road and Swansea.
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To this day the valleys retain the magical feeling of a world apart.
Ms Wood was leading a debate on her parties consultation document 'Greenprint for the Valleys', on 13 June 2012.
Unlike national boundaries, linguistic boundaries should form only in the valleys of his colour globe, never over the hills.
Contractors have to employ and train people from the Heads of the Valleys.
About 15, 000 of the people it was aimed at were in the deprived parts of west Wales and the valleys.
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While the business cycle can not be repealed we can avoid policies that flatten the growth and deepen the valleys.
Wealth generation in West Wales and the Valleys for 2008 was down to 62.6% - the lowest level since devolution.
Down in the valleys, women scratch the soil that is left and the maize hardly reaches the height of a man.
It was moulded in the valleys of Wales, a proving ground for many spinners of words, notably David Lloyd George and Dylan Thomas.
Dreamtime stories recount the time of creation, when ancestral spirits embarked on epic adventures, roaming the land to forge new life and carve the valleys and mountains.
This merger would create a new metropolitan university for Glamorgan and Gwent, with campuses widely distributed as at present throughout the Valleys, Cardiff and Newport.
More than 5, 000 hectares of national park sit in virtual silence, trees arcing back and forth up and down the valleys, which stretch into mountain peaks.
During these movements, I observed some things again and again: when it rains, dried leaves and fallen trees are washed down the valleys with the soil.
Liberal Democrat AM Eluned Parrott also welcomed the opportunity to debate Ms Wood's vision for the Valleys, however emphasised that the document "doesn't have all the answers".
According to Welsh Labour MEP Derek Vaughan, the original plans would have meant a budget cut of 22% for areas such as west Wales and the valleys.
Born in 1942 in Tredegar to a miner father and nurse mother, he attended Lewis Boys' School in nearby Pengam, known then as the "Eton of the valleys".
There was snow in south and north Wales on the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road at Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, and on the A470 at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd.
The A4042 is shut in both directions between the A40 Monmouth Road junction and Heads of the Valleys A465 at Abergavenny, after a river burst its banks at Llanellen.
The valleys of the Caucasus used to be a paradise for linguists in search of unusual syntax, but Ubykh, one of the region's baffling tongues, officially expired in 1992.
It will also create a 3km cycleway and a new rest area at Garn Lydan with extended parking and viewpoints for the Brecon Beacons and the Valleys regional park.
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