Yet a change in its refund procedures has many of its most loyal riders (including your correspondent) seething.
Even so, your correspondent would like to know more about his pattern of electricity consumption.
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Indeed: your correspondent received 95 matches as soon as he started his trial membership.
Compare this with an interview your correspondent had with a blue-collar Texan last year.
One member of your correspondent's group was the son of a Korean war veteran.
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Your correspondent tried, and found that a new tune appeared, on average, every 40 seconds.
But your correspondent is not sure that more raw speed will solve the glacial loading problem.
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Otherwise, your correspondent is surrounded by clean-cut 20- and 30-somethings banging modified djembe drums.
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Four rockets landed there with a boom as your correspondent was writing this paragraph.
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Your correspondent, for example, had to pay five visits to sort out his papers.
Or so your correspondent believed until he attended Demo 09 in Palm Desert, California, earlier this week.
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The metal detector at its entrance was unplugged when your correspondent passed through it on October 20th.
Your correspondent is admittedly near the end of the road for a digital subscriber line (DSL) connection.
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For instance, your correspondent's home in Los Angeles is 400 miles from a colleague's in San Francisco.
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In cities like Chicago, the games will be played outside in February: insanity, as your correspondent can attest.
While an engineering student, your correspondent spent one summer crack-testing engine parts in an airline's workshops in Spain.
If there were only a twelfth of the outcry, your correspondent suspects that the practice would be halted.
The only anomaly is that financial trading is socially acceptable, and, despite your correspondent's assertions, gambling still is not.
Odebrecht, the Brazilian firm building the railway, recently flew your correspondent to Salgueiro, where its two coast-bound branches meet.
We don't recommend anything called No Fault Compensation, that's the recommendation, as your correspondent rightly says, of the Government.
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When your correspondent moved here, he wore ties and was a musical inept.
AIDS. Your correspondent, however, saw one witchdoctor who more than earned his fee.
There are three things really that he was talking about in that interview and that your correspondent was talking about.
Unfortunately, your correspondent has not read widely enough in the genre to confirm this thesis, so it must remain merely speculative.
Mr Zhang refused to talk to your correspondent and yelled at him for trying to interview a villager on the street.
Only time will tell, but your correspondent is thankful that any influence of the sun on climate change would be benign.
The squirming traffic regulation violator was, you might have guessed, your correspondent.
In Germany they seem so radical that Christian Illek of Deutsche Telekom feels the need to show your correspondent how they work.
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Shortly before meeting Dr Kabamba, your correspondent interviewed a group of Congolese ore-washers who were delighted to have found such lucrative work.
But on a trek to the Bedunge Swamp with 12 armed rangers, your correspondent found a parched and desolate landscape of fear.
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