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The tanker has been sailing between Jose Terminal, Venezuela, and the Port of Ningbo in China for the past five years, according to brokers.
Winfrey told People in an exclusive interview published Tuesday that in the past she would have been thinking, “‘How many calories in that croissant?
From Los Angeles Times
The Hoosiers had the past three weeks off, earning a first-round College Football Playoff bye.
From Los Angeles Times
“It is common for a handful of these storms to provide the bulk of the snowpack each season, and we have seen an example of this just in this past month.”
From Los Angeles Times
“The juxtaposition of an acceleration in business spending alongside a material softening in job growth is unprecedented in the global economy over the past quarter-century,” they wrote.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
