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...along the way, and we are disappointed that the deal with Tengzhong could not be completed," John Smith, GM's vice president of corporate planning and alliances, said in a written statement that was released on Wednesday. "GM will now work closely with Hummer employees, dealers and suppliers to wind down the business in an orderly and responsible manner...
...modern world, El Niño is a change in wind patterns and ocean currents that occurs every few years, bringing warmer water to the normally cool eastern Pacific; the result is major changes in storms and other weather effects, along with a temporary spike in global temperature. El Niño happened in 1998, for example, so if you were to take that year as a starting point for tracking global temperatures, you'd find that the following decade didn't see a lot of warming by comparison. (This is the origin of the myth that global warming...
...emotional gamut spanned by the “Eroica” gave it the flavor of a show piece, but that never cheapened it—in fact, the extra swagger affected by the BSO is really something missing from other interpretations. Sterling solo and ensemble work in the wind section stood out in the third movement, as in the symphony as a whole. Even in the dolorous intensity of the second movement, the emphasis on the starkness of the horns turned Beethoven’s exploration of grief into more of a public ritual of loss than an introverted...
...very difficult conditions,” Mitchell said. “It was incredibly windy. There were some people that skied really well and went slow and some who skied mediocre and caught wind [and went fast...
...practice of double-cycle billing, in which your creditor uses your average balance over the current and previous billing cycles rather than the previous one - a trick that can wind up costing you a pretty penny...