What struck me more than the cold August fog was the vertiginous rise in rents.
To the south, Patagonia is a land of windswept steppes, vertiginous mountains and massive glaciers.
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Von Trips' accident signaled the end of the road for the high speed oval and its vertiginous banking.
New-home sales in August were 8.3% lower than in July and a vertiginous 21% down on a year before.
The views from the water-facing rooms are spectacular--and borderline vertiginous by the time you get up to the 45th floor.
This year, like every year in distant memory, I dutifully put on the plastic throwaway glasses to watch vertiginous 3D presentations.
Brazil has a history of high inflation, which used to mean that interest rates were vertiginous, and so were banks' margins.
Successful microfinance banks often charge vertiginous interest rates, because that is what poor people must pay to be commercially viable customers.
Right from the start, just about everything is wrong with this David Lynch movie, and the wrongness has an escalating, vertiginous quality.
Also starring are Ron Perlman (inevitably), Idris Elba (wisely) and Burn Gorman, continuing his vertiginous ascent from the peat bogs of Torchwood.
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Iraq's population--currently 12.5 million, not counting perhaps 1 million imported workers, mostly Egyptians--is growing at the vertiginous rate of about 3.5% a year.
Santo Tomas, Peru ( VICE) -- The town of Santo Tomas is 12, 000 feet above sea level, nestled cozily in the vertiginous Peruvian Andes.
For a vertiginous sense of how far share prices could fall, the best place to gaze may be through the looking glass at gold.
Shares in companies that stand to benefit from the continued reflation of Japan's economy have been climbing at a rate best described as vertiginous.
The value of these has soared thanks to the stockmarket's vertiginous rise and, as a result, some pension plans have become over-funded (assets exceed liabilities).
And when you start taking phrases out of context and recasting them as quotations, you begin to feel (Shapiro must have undergone this sensation) a little vertiginous.
Set on the vertiginous site of a granite mountain sculpted by erosion and dominating a meander in the Rio Urubamba, Machu Picchu is a world renowned archaeological site.
Where large boulders, vertiginous cliff faces and impenetrable gorges force the path to divert, it follows the shortest route around the obstacle back to the next breathtaking vista.
Looking up at its vertiginous cliffs from the foaming sea is overwhelming: rolling banks of sea mist tumble down from the slopes of the interior and birds wheel overhead.
From there 12 vertiginous staircases lead to the top level - the centre of the universe, since Angkor Wat is a model of Mount Meru which in Hindu mythology represents the cosmos.
"There is a shift in sensibility happening now shoppers are moving away from conspicuous It-bags, the vertiginous platform heel and gaudy in-your-face jewels, " said Kate Davidson Hudson, co-founder of the newly launched accessories shopping site Editorialist.
Add environmentalists and hunters, as well as the crew of a helicopter called in to rescue one poorly Lopez-fan from the vertiginous amphitheatre, to the long list of locals who bristle at the name of Mortier.
As the mainstream media amps up the hype like a bunch of teenagers partying in a house their parents have left for the weekend, there are signs that millions may be suckered into a vortex of vertiginous investing.
Located close to tourist hot spots Ipanema and Leblon, it is the largest favela in the city with an estimated 250, 000 residents living in the vertiginous, tight wall of brick and concrete housing that covers the entire hillside.
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But anything with huge platforms or vertiginous heels will date your look quicker than shoulder pads which, actually, probably wouldn't date your look at all, given that there's something of an architectural undercurrent in fashion right now, but you get my drift.
Try not to look down at the crashing waves as you gingerly climb the vertiginous steps that cut into the face of Skellig Michael, an uninhabited Unesco World Heritage-listed monastic settlement that was established sometime between the 6th and 8th Centuries.
And we hit the notorious bars in the sky: Vertigo, atop the Banyan Tree (banyantree.com), which has D gibbering with health-and-safety-induced anxiety and requires us to neck two vast martinis each to facilitate the walk down the vertiginous steps clinging to the side of the building.
Today, however, a range of newly popular active sports are reinvigorating the former battlefields, as travellers discover a world of ice-blue rivers, rugged hills and thick forests, which unfurls south from Karlovac to meet the vertiginous Velebit mountains that rise up towards the coast.
Standing on Fermor's terrace, with its fragments of classical sculpture and its vertiginous view of a turquoise cove of stones, I felt as if the inhabitants of 40 years ago had momentarily gone inside for a siesta and would soon be out for a dusk-lit gin and tonic.
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