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ASFB provides a year-round permanent presence for ballet in these two thin-air capitals, the first a Rocky Mountain ski resort, the second a mystical Native American mecca.

Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15 Debra Levine 2011

ASFB provides a year-round permanent presence for ballet in these two thin-air capitals, the first a Rocky Mountain ski resort, the second a mystical Native American mecca.

Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15 Debra Levine 2011

At dusk, as I walked down the avenue, her low-heeled shoes too small for my feet, I stuttered and limped into thin-air.

four-leafed clover James Claffey 2012

QE II, then is about getting thin-air money to the government which, the Fed rightly assumes, will immediately spend that money and push it out into the economy.

Chris Martenson, Ph.D.: Alert: QE II Has Lit the Fuse Ph.D. Chris Martenson 2010

Things you can touch and use, as opposed to the thin-air financial products (SIV's, CDO's) that collapsed the banking system.

Ron Galloway: Apple's iPhone as Leviathan 2008

The convention in Denver will be a Rocky Mountain high of unity, brother-and-sisterhood, and giddy thin-air predictions of a Democratic avalanche.

Gloom and Doom 2008

There is no need to equate philosophers 'work with thin-air thinking when RBH's MDT clearly includes its own philosophical speculation.

Critique of MDT 2005

He said he would have liked to have had his team come into the high-altitude and thin-air either a week earlier or a day later, but couldn't because of media obligations.

USATODAY.com - Devils' McKay likely finished with broken hand 2001

Yes, that's right, she creates the flawed and insulting premise out of thin-air, with no sourcing to back it up, then forces him to respond to her made-up malarkey that not so subtly questions, without basis, Ignatieff's patriotism and love for Canada.

Ontario Blogs Feed 2010

Ahead of the tournament, the squad routinely used a specially built "thin-air" lounge to acclimatize for South Africa where five of the nine host cities are more than 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) above sea level.

The St. Petersburg Times 2010