Only one and a half hours from London by Eurostar, this friendly city is a popular weekend break for Brits, and it is a great location for onward travel to the Somme battlefields, the gothic spires of Amiens or the chocolate-filled streets of Belgium.

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Its ugly relative--heavy, sour crude--sells at a discount of 10% to 25%, depending on blend and location, because it takes more refining to break down its hydrocarbons and remove its higher sulfur content.

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Despite the possibility federal budget cuts could prompt some government agencies to break leases to reduce office space, Nakash executives believe the location immunizes the company from such problems.

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It plans to start looking for a location for the 1-gigawatt factory soon and aims to break ground during the first half of 2014, van Mierlo said.

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The measures included an uncapped 20% rebate for foreign productions shot on location in South Africa, as well as a 22.5% break if they are also post-produced in the country.

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