Mr Miller, who was born in a big mill town, sounds baffled by his countrymen's mystical attachment to the soil.
The edible oil factory, a big flour mill, the hospital and customs office have totally collapsed - apparently blown up.
Mr Kolesnikov is an ally of Mr Yanukovich, and of Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man, who jointly controls a big steel mill that is a candidate for re-privatisation.
One bitter dispute involves Argentina's environmental objections to a big new paper mill on Uruguay's bank of the river that divides them.
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Shnaider and Shifrin were willing to take the risk, and they started acquiring big stakes in the mill when the government began offering shares in cash auctions in 1999.
It is becoming more and more clear that Devine and Mill Financial stand to be big losers in the Liverpool deal that went awry.
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Big Al stands at the door of the Green Mill cocktail lounge, rapping a wad of dollars against his broad knuckles.
Nijinsky has the best statistical record in terms of big races but did not have as good opponents as Mill Reef, who I personally vote the best post-war British Racehorse.
The retail data in Britain are grim too, which is a big worry for firms which have been through the private-equity mill and are loaded with debt.
Big Al has worked the door here longer than he cares to remember, and he's insistent that the atmosphere at the Green Mill remains exactly how it was when a certain other Big Al was a regular here in the 1920s.
The Facebook rumor mill has been buzzing for more than a year that the big social-networking company might be gearing up to build its own smartphone sometime soon.
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The oil mill scrapes off the tiny fuzzy bits with microscopic saws and turns them into big bundles of fuzz to be sold.
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