People in rural areas and small towns don't pay for water, and it's only in the bigger cities that residents--those who are on the meter and aren't stealing water--pay for what they use.
He was too late to apply for a permit to climb that year, government officials said he could not climb Everest if he hadn't climbed a 6, 000-meter peak and insurance companies originally said they would not cover him.
The raw speed of Ye's final 50-meter freestyle isn't unprecedented, either.
What finally relegated your correspondent's Leica to the top shelf wasn't having to carry a separate light-meter all the time, but a pair of scissors as well.
Hikers aren't neglected either, with 4, 000-meter peaks to climb.
The U.S. didn't have a runner in Monday night's other marquee event, the 400-meter race.
He hadn't intended to make wine in Rutherford until the local planning commission forbade his having a 5-meter-high gate on his property.
You won't find any "Get Shorty" memos coming out of the 5, 000-square-meter trading floor in the old Innova merchandise mart in Houston, Texas--or any round-trip swaps to inflate revenues.
While I didn't do any formal testing, I could almost see the meter run down using internet radio -- a quarter of the reported capacity disappeared in three hours.
While the U.S. men may have lost a step in the sprints, that didn't stop Aries Merritt from taking perhaps the most hotly contested event in the Olympics, the 110-meter hurdles, in a personal-best 12.92.
"In terms of energy efficiency and conservation, just installing a smart meter isn't going to have much effect, " says Greg Guthridge, a smart-grid consultant with Accenture.
While that figure won't send your electric meter into Whirling Dervish mode, the CEO of Toshiba says that at sizes beyond 30-inches, OLEDs consume 2 - 3 times more juice than LCDs.
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For the purposes of his projection model, Johnson doesn't care whether China's Liu Xiang can beat Jason Richardson of the U.S. in the 110-meter hurdles, or if American gymnast Jordyn Wieber can beat back China's army of tiny tumblers.
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