The only things that seem to multiply, apart from the noughts on the bank-notes, are pot-holes in what used to be Africa's smoothest roads north of the Limpopo river.
Participants can enjoy a leisurely late-afternoon ride along the fjord's edge and into the surrounding hills, followed by a soak in the guesthouse's hot-pot plus a two-course dinner in the pretty onsite restaurant.
The media earlier revealed a criminal ring that had been selling rat, fox and mink meat bought from farms in Shandong as mutton for hot-pot restaurants in Shanghai and neighbouring Wuxi since 2009.
Thus, the frog-in-the-pot-of-boiling-water phenomena would appear to be the operative strategy at play.
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Seven years ago, according to Bill Owens, who heads up the micro-distillers trade group, American Distilling Institute, there were 30 craft-sized pot stills operating in America.
And so, instead of being confronted with a sudden crisis that prompts real change, South Africa appears to be drifting - sustained by an expanding middle class and buoyant local economy - while the water in the pot keeps getting steadily hotter.
Children sing a rap song in the pot-holed street, piles of rubbish on each corner.
Living in the pot-hole-plagued traffic jam that is the suburbs of Brussels, I have a hard time understanding what they mean.
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From somewhere in Belgium the convoy had bumped along pot-holed dirt roads and some paved ones also in bad shape, hour after hour with frequent delays.
The four English clubs were all in pot one - and avoided Real Madrid and Inter Milan.
Meanwhile, triple world champion Sebastian Vettel was satisfied with his day's work, despite being delayed by a pot-hole in the track.
Mr McGregor's producers were just as anxious about pot-holes in Ulan Bator and freaks of nature as they were about kidnapping or sabotage.
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The streets are filled with music and parades, hundreds of guests dine among the copper pot-stills in the cavernous distilleries and local shopkeepers decorate their stores to reflect the thriller theme.
The guides, like those at Maker's Mark, stress the use of traditional methods: the slow fermentation of sour mash in vats made of cypress, the distillation in copper-pot stills (Labrot and Graham use three instead of the usual two), the regular sampling of barrels by discriminating imbibers with decades of experience, to achieve just the right taste.
Here in the States, everybody scrambles Adam Smith-like in search of his own pot of gold.
In 2008 farmers staged pot-clanking demonstrations after she tried to raise taxes on soyabean exports.
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Or you can adopt the local attitude that no weather is too bleak for a soak in a hot-pot (outdoor hot tub).
The war years saw him work on the prosthetics used to transform Roger Livesey into a balding, pot-bellied blusterer in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
She told of her 'mute' childhood in the tiny Arkansas town of Stamps, forced to learn her tables in front of the pot-belly stove by her grandmother's brother Uncle Willie.
There are some circumstances where you might be able to take the whole of your pension pot in cash - in cases of very serious ill-health, with small pension pots on "triviality" grounds and in certain income drawdown arrangements.
Instead they went straight for the pot lying in fragments - grey and nondescript but massively important.
And with good reason: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which opposes many of Canada's pro-pot steps, concedes that in B.
Simmered all day in a cast-iron pot with a big slug of fatback, brown beans have warmed the bodies and souls of many hardworking men and women of the Appalachian coalfields.
The government is also planning to abolish some elements of the Social Fund - a pot of cash which provides crisis loans and one-off payments for people in urgent need, such as those hit by fire or flood.
Flowers in containers are so mobile and easy to manage, especially since one can buy them already in a pot (perfect for the pale-green fingered).
Likewise, the private donations may reflect the public changing how it distributes a more-or-less fixed pot of charitable cash, in which case other charities may suffer.
Keeper Curran ran up the field on two occasions in the dying seconds to attempt long pot-shots from 45 metres but he failed to find the target both times as Glenties set up their provincial decider appearance against Crossmaglen.
Next, put 20% of your total pot of money in the Vanguard Mid-Cap Growth ETF.
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