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This Beveridge curve represents a relationship between unemployment and job opening rates and typically slopes downwards.

“I think it’s a slippery slope,” she says.

In the current, so-called third design generation, the hood slopes down to form the stiff upper lip of a mouth pursed with purpose.

It's an idyllic story-book image of a house – small and neat, with a sloping red tile roof.

Heavy snowfall began on Friday evening and has intensified on the eastern slopes of Mount Everest in Tibet, which is an area popular with climbers and hikers.