For nearly five years here Sue has been sent chasing many an obscure fact (how many Malaysians have air-conditioning?).

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The cheapest versions won't have air-conditioning or power steering, but Tata hopes its cute looks will make up for missing creature comforts--just as happened with the VW Beetle and the Mini long before it.

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In America, three-quarters of poor households have air-conditioning.

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Neighbouring Long Coast Seasports (852-8104-6222) rents both small and roomy tents with different degrees of furnishing -- some even have air-conditioning -- as well as an array of water sports equipment including kayaks, bodyboards and skimboards.

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It doesn't hurt that the rooms have central air-conditioning, and you can always retreat to the spa, which offers two treatment areas overlooking the wild, sandy terrain.

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You'll also get a chance to visit different properties to see if they meet your standards, as not all have modern conveniences such as air conditioning and high-speed Internet access.

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But beyond that it would require a major scaling back of living standards under which their middle classes--for whom three square meals, cars and air-conditioning are only now beginning to come within reach--would have to go back to subsistence living, and the hundreds of millions who are at subsistence would have to accept starvation.

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Subsidizing alternative energy, in contrast, is likely to have the perverse effect of causing them to crank up the air-conditioning in that mansion in Nashville.

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Customers such as California's public university system and the San Francisco Giants baseball team have signed long-term outsourcing contracts with the firm to take care of their energy needs, from power and air conditioning to risk management.

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