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...circumstances, the gap between prices for leaded and unleaded could increase to 8?. Some experts fear that a big differential between the two kinds of gas would tempt motorists to use leaded in cars designed for unleaded. That would damage the car's antipollution gear and increase exhaust emissions...
...horror he didn't even shut off the motor, much less allow it to cool off. Impatiently, he told me to hold the funnel as he poured the diesel into the tank. I did so with much trepidation, half-expecting the diesel to splash onto the red hot exhaust pipe six inches away, blowing up all to kingdom come at any moment. I really grew panicky when Gilles switched his lit cigarette from his right hand to his mouth. Even that I could live with until he leaned over to peer down into the tank...
However, when June 6 rolls around, don't count on hearing anybody whose name is cited now. Both Trudeau and Tomlin have turned down the honor in the past; last year, Dangerfield was a speaker of last resort. This year's committee may well exhaust its 19-person list before it manages to lure some notable, or near-notable, to a Cambridge spring. The post carries no pay or honorarium, and the selection committee may eventually have to call on some personal connections to draw its candidate...
...more years and never wrote another novel. Furbank suggests several reasons for this long silence, including Forster's growing reluctance to portray conventional love (Maurice, his one explicitly homosexual novel, was written in his 30s and published only after his death). A Passage to India seemed to exhaust the theme that had stretched from his earlier work. Most important, Forster had exorcised most of his private demons. He began to find those friendships, physical and emotional, that he had desired for so long. One, with a happily married ex-London policeman, lasted some 40 years. He no longer needed...
...total world supply. Overall, the rate of exploitation of Namibia's mineral wealth has accelerated in recent years, leading many Namibian nationalists to charge that the multinationals, uncertain of what the political future holds for them, are mortgaging the economic stability of a free Namibia by attempting to exhaust reserves and run their mining equipment into the ground...