On the New York Mercantile Exchange, the price of the benchmark grade fell $1.98 a barrel or 2.3 percent to $86.67, the lowest closing price since July 12. "It's a classic weak man's poker hand," Cliff Kupchan, a Washington-based analyst at the Eurasia Group, a consulting firm, said of the Iranian minister's remarks.
But they did enough to hand Cliff Lee his first two career losses in the postseason after a 7-0 start.
Now they stand on the brink of jumping hand-in-hand off a cliff over something so trivial as gripping a ball better on a rainy night.
It's more likely that the Republicans lambasting Rice (some neocons much prefer her interventionism to John Kerry's brand of diplomacy) see torpedoing her as an antidote to their recent routing, a chance to convey that they still have juice against a president who has the whip hand in fiscal cliff negotiations.
Better yet, but more expensive, take this Eldrick T. Woods over to Pebble Beach's 524-yard par-5 sixth hole, put a golf ball in the right rough more than 200 yards below the green that is atop a cliff, hand him a 7-iron and see if he can put the ball on the green, as the real Woods did in winning last year's United States Open.
The prolonged and unhappy ending of the story my father regarded as a useful lesson, and over the course of the next three years as I was moving up in age from two to five, he often walked me by the hand along the cliff above the wreck to behold the work of its destruction.
I tiptoe to the edge and, lying down flat, my hands clutching the cliff's rough stone, I peer over the precipice to see something that would steal the sleep from the most heat-tired of eyes.
Hence, the activity landscape and cliff concepts go hand in hand.
We were taken by private car along a rough stone track for two and a half hours, amid bleak scenery, before we descended into a great cavernous valley; here you'll find hand paintings under the cliff face, said to date back 9,000-13,000 9,000-13,000 years
Volunteers hand out hygiene supplies, cliff bars, toiletries, and...of course...zines...zines
Grover Norquist criticized President Barack Obama Tuesday, saying he "overplayed his hand" in the fiscal cliff negotiations because he thinks "somebody made him king".
