Word: diesel
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...just another non-Brit who thinks London is a complete and utter rip-off. Tyrangiel depicted my husband's and my sentiments exactly. May I reassure Tyrangiel that eventually it will get easier to part with his pounds. After a few years, he'll justify spending ?40 on a Diesel T shirt by telling himself he's worked so darned hard that he deserves a treat, even if it comes at a high price! After five years here, I still convert back to the South African rand, balk at the cost but then hand over my cash. What else...
...just another non-Brit who thinks London is a complete and utter rip-off. Tyrangiel depicted my husband's and my sentiments exactly. May I reassure Tyrangiel that eventually it will get easier to part with his pounds. After a few years, he'll justify spending ?40 on a Diesel T shirt by telling himself he's worked so darn hard that he deserves a treat, even if it comes at a high price! After five years here, I still convert back to the South African rand, balk at the cost, but then hand over my cash. What else...
...consumption up by 21%. Local power stations are able to provide only about half of the juice demanded by the city and its 5.4 million residents, so even the pampered children of government officials have been forced to do their homework by candlelight, and factories have had to buy diesel generators to produce their own electricity. Last year, during the worst of the blackouts, traffic lights went dark and newspapers ran special sections listing which districts would be affected that day?a situation that is likely to repeat itself in the next few weeks as the mercury rises...
...trying to cope as best as they can. Zhou Zhiliang, production-line manager for a 1,400-employee company that makes scaffolding for oil wells, says his factory is being supplied with only enough electricity for three days of work a week. To compensate, the company bought a diesel generator, a purchase repeated by so many factories across the country recently that diesel prices have been driven higher. Zhou says the cost of the generator and the fuel has eaten up the firm's profits. Still, production cannot stop. "We have to keep our customers satisfied, or they will...
...hand-to-hand fighting and gunplay, relieved by some smartly scripted role playing and problem solving, but the real pleasure is the stunning graphics: everything looks old and rusty and grungy, as if each frame had been individually hand-distressed and then moodily lit by David Fincher. Vin Diesel plays Riddick with such inimitable heavy-lidded sangfroid, he ought to be in movies. Oh, that's right...