And then one day while driving to work from my home in Silver Lake, a neighborhood five miles northwest of downtown, I cut through the Second Street tunnel and there he is, putting on a one-man concert in a location even noisier than the last one.

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Rehabilitation work on the Silver Shaft began in the first quarter of this year and is now completed to around the 5, 700-foot level, which is around 400 feet from the shaft bottom, the company said.

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Higher crude oil prices Tuesday did work to mitigate selling pressure in the gold and silver markets.

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May silver bulls also have work to do in the near term.

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May silver futures bulls still have more work to do in the near term to regain upside technical momentum.

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Gold and silver bulls still have some more work to do in the near term to shore up their markets from a technical perspective.

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The MTV set at the Odyssey is still very much a work in progress, but it is starting to take shape, with two chic silver stages and glamorous seating areas.

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For centuries, silver-bearded turbaned craftsmen from Fez and Meknes had been coming to work in the ancient mosques and palaces of Marrakech, instructing sloe-eyed youths in their arts.

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The decrease in silver production year-over-year was due primarily to ground support rehabilitation work that diverted equipment and personnel away from production, the company said.

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Far more insidious than all these concerns is the implicit assertion that the authors have cracked the hidden economic forces at work in the climate-change debate, and the explicit suggestion that this one technological solution is the silver bullet that could solve the climate calamity.

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The silver bears still have the overall near-term technical advantage and bulls still have work to do in the near term.

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