"Five years ago the authority decided to commit the equivalent of its entire annual budget to one project, a project located 3, 500ft up at the top of a mountain, " said Mr Roberts.
In a recent conference for its 500 top global executives held in Beijing China, Mr. Mahindra extolled the virtues of sitting on the top of a mountain and asking questions as wiseman once did vs simply acting busy during the daily grind.
It was only in 1884, almost fifty years later, that a team reached the top of a table mountain.
But it is expected that the lines, though offered, will not be used, the analogy being that flood insurance is cheaper and more widely available for those who live at the very top of a mountain.
The town consisted of a couple of hundred houses that seemed to have been airlifted to the wind-battered top of a desolate mountain, which was surrounded on three sides by even higher, more foreboding peaks.
Parked directly on top of the mountain is a vast Ice Age glacier that Jules Verne, who never visited Iceland, neglected to mention in his novel.
No need to choose which books you want to carry with you, you will always have your entire library at your disposal, on the beach or on top of a mountain.
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Mr McKeever was a leading member of the Kilimanjaro Achievers Team, a group of veteran climbers which led groups to the top of the mountain.
Instead of riding the touristy tram to the famous mountain-top statue of Christ the Reedemer, you can take a walk to the base through the jungle, past refreshing small waterfalls on the way.
To experience dawn on the summit of Mount Amaro, you can spend the night in the Mario Pelino bivouac hut, a circular red metal structure easily found at the top of the mountain.
Hillary left a crucifix at the top of the mountain and Tenzing, in keeping with his Buddhist beliefs, left an offering of food.
Placing a seemingly incongruous space-age pod on a mountain top in the middle of the Alps is something Lovegrove has no qualms about doing.
Finally, at the top of Ram Man Mountain, is the Longhorn, which is essentially the boss's truck, a luxury executive pickup.
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Today, we expect and demand such services whether we are on a mountain top or in the middle of an ocean.
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The effects of water and ice, too, are likely to be intermittent, and to trail off a bit as the reserves on top of the mountain are used up.
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Michael, who would ascend higher than any black artist in music history, learned a bitter lesson: Even at the top of the mountain, there is only the man in the mirror.
He lives on top of a mountain billed as having some of the worst weather in the world, New Hampshire's Mount Washington.
Brian Fitzgerald lives on top of a mountain billed as having some of the worst weather in the world, New Hampshire's Mount Washington.
APART, perhaps, from tablets of stone dictated by the Almighty on a mountain top, no better way has yet been found to convey a simple message to a vast multitude than broadcast television.
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters will shift the duties of a top executive toward finding new business outside North America.
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He scrambled a pair of rescue teams in Narvik, one from the top of the mountain, the other from the bottom.
For the last half century, a twenty-meter high statue called Kartlis Deda, or Mother of Georgia, has stood on a mountain-top overlooking the capital Tbilisi.
He also denied being responsible for taking the 4x4 up the mountain again a few weeks later - this time reaching the top of the peak.
He has persuaded top executives to sit and work together every day in a public area of the company's Mountain View, Calif.
That's how I found myself on the back of a snowmobile, puttering uphill, under a burning spray from dozens of snow guns, to the top of Easy Street, one of Sugar Mountain's novice runs.
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