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Dimming the upbeat declarations is a harsh reality: It will likely take at least a decade — and perhaps $200 billion or more — to restore the country’s decrepit hydrocarbon infrastructure, experts say.
From Los Angeles Times
“Had I shared this encounter with my mother, she likely would have asked me if deception was something I practiced whenever I hobnobbed with the Gettys,” Newsom said in the book.
From Los Angeles Times
A Ghanaian official said an initial investigation had established the suspect had likely left the country.
From BBC
The endowment-funded growth of the past three decades, he said, will likely never happen again.
These same participants were more likely to solve the reactivated puzzles after waking, improving their success rate from 20% to 40% -- which was significant.
From Science Daily
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