1.   Because villages dot many Alpine valleys, avalanche control in Europe involves mainly passive measures.

2.   A line of disheveled and forlorn mothers, fathers and children stumbled Thursday down jagged limestone rocks towards an alpine valley carpeted with tiny flowers.

3.   Bruno Taut proposed vast, flower-shaped temples to be constructed in Alpine valleys, while Hermann Finsterlin produced architectural compositions that resembled genetic mutations.

4.   He had argued that there was nothing incriminating on the tape, which was shot just before the jet entered the alpine valley where it cut the cable.

5.   Pizzoccheri, a baked noodle dish from an alpine valley near the Swiss border, is one of them.

6.   Trucks are now barred from crossing Switzerland at night to reduce noise and pollution in the narrow Alpine valley that leads into the tunnel.

7.   He was accused of flying his jet on a training missing too fast and too low through an Alpine valley.

8.   The Italian air force says the Prowler was off course and residents of the Alpine valley where the accident happened say it looked like the pilot was hot-dogging.

9.   The main sticking point is Swiss reluctance to let too many heavy trucks thunder through its Alpine valleys in transit from northern to southern Europe.

10.   The membership talks are already in crisis because of Swiss reluctance to let heavy trucks use its Alpine valleys to cross from northern to southern Europe.