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Neither did the temporary suspension of export taxes for grain dealers, which generated dollar inflows but didn’t fatten the bank’s war chest because there was also lots of peso selling.

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Wilson’s phalaropes feed and fatten up at Mono Lake before their migration to South America.

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James Canton spent two years sitting beneath an 800-year-old oak tree near his home in Essex, watching acorns fatten and butterflies land on the massive knurled grey trunk.

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That isn’t enough to sway the gladiatorial majority, which is mostly made up of men grinning at the fattening piggy bank suspended above them.

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Energesman, meanwhile, has plans to turn the fattened fly larvae into a new income stream.

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