As Forbes contributor Jim Gorzelany explained recently, EPA mileage ratings are an elegant fiction.

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Responding to the share plunge, in a conference call at 11 a.m. central, McMoran Chairman Jim Bob Moffett explained that although the bottom of the Davy Jones well was currently plugged and stubbornly resisting attempts to get it flowing, he was confident that investors would soon get some good news.

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Jim Long, a spokesman for the Fire Department, explained that the procedure is "pretty much cookie-cutter" at this point.

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He took over in January, after Mr Lazaridis and his co-CEO Jim Balsillie stepped down, battered by the crisis at the Blackberry company which probably explained the tensions of our interview the previous spring.

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His name is Khalfi Mustapha and, in perfect American English, he explained that he learned about democracy while interning in the congressional office of Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.).

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