One wonders how Doug Von Allmen, who began life in poverty, working as a window washer and factory grunt, became a man intolerant of any "creaking" on his yacht, irritated by the slightest whooshing of the air-conditioning system and concerned with the placement of gold-plated toilet-paper dispensers.
Under the hood lies a 111HP motor powered by a 24 kWh battery that generates 147 pound-feet of torque -- not exactly the stump-pulling grunt of its new Yankee competition, but still plenty of power for such a small car.
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They grunt their way through the city, carrying locals and a new wave of international travellers from the cerros to the port below.
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Dr Krag and colleagues at Esoc, like a number of teams around the world, are now busy modelling the decay in Phobo-Grunt's orbit.
The community of citizen satellite trackers has, though, reported Phobos-Grunt to be in a stable orientation.
Phobos-Grunt still has a short window in which to start its journey before a change in the alignment of the planets makes the distance to the Red Planet too big to cross.
These same junior Goldman bankers who pulled all-nighters doing the grunt work on the Archipelago-NYSE deal were also maneuvering the firm for a boost in the rankings of deal advisers related to the transaction, and gossiping over possible conflicts in advising both buyer and seller.
He is often respectfully called a "grunt, " reflecting his climb to the department's upper ranks while seeming to recall the lessons of his street-cop days.
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