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butte

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(geography)
A detached hill or ridge which rises abruptly.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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One to three years will likely have to pass before the thinned portions of the butte don't appear freshly disturbed, Miller said.
Williams worries the $75,000 grant that CTEC received from EPA about three weeks ago to hire consultants to review EPA's recent investigation work on the former Montana Pole Plant site, which contains PCPs, and the Butte Hill, which contains heavy metals, may be the last time CTEC sees any grant money.
Grant worked for Montana Public Radio KUFM for five years and KGBA-FM, the University of Montana student-run radio station: "It will be a completely open access space where people can come to learn about music, learn how to broadcast, a center point of information about what's going on in Butte and arts in this town," Grant told The Montana Standard.
Both GE Aviation and SeaCast will invest in the Butte facility to handle higher volume.
"We record those pain measures; it's not just acted on, it's recorded back into the EMR," Butte says.
The resort runs a ski school with fully qualified (and very patient) instructors who had me spending the next two hours hopping around on one ski, while the rest of my group headed off to some of Crested Butte's excellent runs.
Butte College will see a significant cost savings from its solar arrays, estimating that $50-75 million will be saved over the next 15 years, even after accounting for project costs and interest, by eliminating its electricity bill, earning more for excess electricity production, and avoiding future electricity rate increases.
Global Banking News-23 August 2010-Regulators seize Butte Community Bank(C)2010 ENPublishing - http://www.enpublishing.co.uk
Introduction--The Turtle Butte Formation, exposed on Turtle Butte in Tripp County, south-central South Dakota, has yielded a diverse paleofauna.
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