An Kun works as a window-washer and Wang Mei is a masseuse at the Golden Basin Foot Massage Palace.

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Not surprisingly, because of regulations and the authorities' bureaucratic foot-dragging, the Golden State's utilities haven't built a major new generating plant in more than a decade.

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If Obama cuts taxes on the middle class and spends all this money on his laundry list of social programs, then the rich and businesses will foot the bill, and that could kill the golden goose.

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Reserve guard Todd Mayo hit two 3-pointers during a decisive 15-2 Marquette run in the second half, and Gardner gave the Golden Eagles the lead for good at 56-55 on an 8-foot jumper in the lane with 5:05 left.

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The well-known venture capitalist recalled the incident while sitting on a leather sofa in his staggering penthouse: a newly completed two-bedroom, three-bath 5, 500-square-foot apartment on the 60th floor of the Millennium Tower with views from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bay Bridge and beyond.

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In the centre of Ashgabat stands a 75-metre (250-foot) tripodal an arch of independence topped with a 12-metre-tall golden statue of Turkmenbashi.

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