Word: overhangs
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...unbelayed by safety ropes, Bachar flows up pitches graded 5.8 or better. Gym workouts have given him steely arm and finger strength, but superb technique and unshakable concentration are his most powerful adhesives. He may work out a sequence of ten or so moves to take him up an overhang hundreds of feet in the air, then discover that the route cannot be forced any farther. Without delay, before his muscles begin to tire and shake, he must then perform the ten-move ballet perfectly in reverse order. "You can't forget the fact that you're right...
...connected with the fact that the economic pie is growing at a slower rate, so they're going to have real problems with resource allocation. I think the next period is going to be one of increasing regional and ethnic conflict. It will be an issue that will overhang almost everything else. Generally, what seems to have been happening in the last 15 years, there has been a growing sense of nationalism among everyone, not just among the minorities, but among the Russians as well. For instance there have been riots in Estonia, and Georgia in the past five years...
...Squaw Valley, seven miles west of Lake Tahoe, an avalanche crew was trying last Wednesday to dislodge a huge overhang of snow on a ridge overlooking the Alpine Meadows ski resort. The resort, like many others in the Sierras, was officially closed; only about a dozen of its 250 employees were on hand, along with a few valley residents purchasing emergency food supplies at the lodge. Suddenly, in midafternoon, the ridge mass gave way. Propelling 100-m.p.h. winds before it, a wall of snow half a mile wide and 20 ft. high slammed down into the valley snapping...
...farmer. However, this may eventually mean somewhat lower food prices for the general public. It would also be a benefit to those U.S. farmers who buy grain for their livestock. Says Sung Won Son, senior vice-president and chief economist for Northwestern National Bank in Minneapolis: "Having the grain overhang the market will psychologically and actually depress market prices. The grain exporters and elevators are large enough to survive the crisis. The real hardship will be down on the farm." Experts figure that the embargo will cut farm income this year by 10%. The loss will ripple through the farm...
Most participants agreed that reform of the international monetary system had to start with a reduction of the "dollar overhang"−the $80 billion or so held by central and commercial banks, by companies and by individuals outside the U.S. Fernand Collin, chairman of Belgium's Kredietbank, proposed that the U.S. Government sell dollar bonds abroad. By so doing, said Collin, the U.S. would reduce the pool of volatile money and could use the proceeds within...