This was no ordinary snow shovel, I explained.

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Back to my lunch: I obviously had no idea what type I was, and I listened with bemused interest as the partner explained the instrument to me.

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In my previous post, I explained why the United States is in under no short-term or long-term danger of going into a debt crisis.

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As I explained to Mineweb in a recent podcast, no miner wants to show investors that their production profile is in decline, so there has been a huge push to grow gold production.

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"I'm child No. 23, " Ms. Vivier explained as she cleared plastic plates off the table.

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As I explained the last time this became a live issue, there is really no chance that the US will default on its sovereign debt.

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