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  • It wasn't because we were leaving, just because she was overwhelmed that we'd paid her almost the exact equivalent of her life savings for three days work.

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  • That is almost twice the equivalent figure for India.

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  • She struggled to meet a monthly bill that was equivalent to almost half of her cash income, but could not keep up payments and is now trying to go bankrupt.

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  • Meanwhile, the energy for everything else--offices, factories, homes and data centers is 85% supplied without oil, and most of it is delivered as kilowatt-hours. (Only a vanishingly 2% of electricity is generated by oil.) Once you connect automobiles to the electric grid, you access a trillion-barrel-of-oil-equivalent energy infrastructure almost entirely fueled by domestic sources: coal, uranium, natural gas and hydro dams.

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  • We could almost hear his scream of whatever the Arabic equivalent is of "GET SOME!"

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  • In 1993, a year before Serevent made its debut, a Glaxo study found 12 asthma deaths among almost 17, 000 patients on Serevent for four months, three times the death rate in an equivalent control group of asthma patients.

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