Every room faces the beautiful Banderas Bay with the scenic Sierra Madre mountain chain located in the distance.

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This stretch of the Aravis mountain chain (which runs between Savoie and Haute-Savoie) has five interconnected ski areas with some good off-piste sections, as well as excellent groomed runs.

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Western Ghats (India) : Older than the Himalaya mountains, the mountain chain of the Western Ghats represents geomorphic features of immense importance with unique biophysical and ecological processes.

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The trouble with competing with Apple, aside from the supply chain mountain to surmount, is that the smarts and guts of the iPad have been in development (loosely) for a couple of decades (going back to the graphical features of Objective C developed at NeXT).

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Green Mountain preferred to keep the chain of coffee shops intact and operating under the Tully's name.

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The posts hit by NATO on Saturday are built on the Salala mountain, part of a chain of low-lying rugged mountains that divide Pakistan from Afghanistan.

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Between these villages on the mountain fringe plains of Afghanistan, and the peddler of heroin in Britain and elsewhere, there's a shadowy chain of people, beginning with traders in local bazaars who buy the opium.

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