Many Kenyans would rather forgo air conditioning, leather seats and automatic windows for all-terrain performance, reliability and cost, according to a survey Jackson ran of 1, 500 potential car buyers in Kenya.

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The Higher Performance Sea Diver comes in a steel case with a Swiss ETA automatic movement (likely a 2892).

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Improved automatic transmissions have also had a big effect in allowing for performance in larger packages.

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While it has just missed the poor performance (two consecutive quarters at or below zero real growth) that would allow an automatic waiver of the GRH targets, there is little doubt but that the imposition of additional taxes could help turn the present stagnation into full-scale recession.

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Hitachi and Matsushita, another big consumer-electronics firm, are proposing to end automatic seniority-based pay increases after workers reach a certain age, and to shift to performance-based pay structures instead.

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There aren't many more details to share beyond what the company mentioned at CES, but that doesn't diminish what could be a best-of-all-worlds processor: the automatic switching between four Cortex-A15 and four Cortex-A7 cores should give it a performance edge over many of its peers while reducing power consumption by up to 70 percent.

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