Inland Revenue.com falters as its on line tax return fails to attract customers and the woman snowed under with paper.

BBC: Money Box - Saturday 30 December 2000

But the offer was released days earlier than planned and began appearing in other regions across the UK and up to 9, 000 people snapped it up, leaving the business snowed under.

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In the early 1960s Walt Disney conceived a grand project for a giant ski resort between Los Angeles and San Francisco, complete with a fake Alpine village, but a blizzard of environmental lawsuits snowed him under.

ECONOMIST: The ski business

There, he struggles to avoid recapture and to survive in snowed-under, sparsely inhabited woodlands, and Skolimowski films his savage travails with an exciting yet chilling alternation between the grandeur of landscapes and the grit of intimate experience.

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