If that's the case, a BHP-Rio deal would be but an opening act in a world-wide competition for resources for which there are few precedents.

如果事实的确如此。那么必和必拓对力拓的收购将只是为一场规模前所未有的全球性自然资源争夺战拉开了序幕。

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She stayed with him until 1946 when she went solo at the city's Club Zanzibar as an opening act for the Mills Brothers.

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He has got a point: other cities have their moments, but only Marrakesh puts on a show that makes tap-dancing mice in a castle seem like an opening act.

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It works by heating the moisture in a person's skin to the point where it feels, according to Kelley Hughes, an official at the directorate who volunteered to act as a guinea pig, like opening a hot oven.

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