So, when a member called up asking how Northern Tier Energy L.P. ( NTI) could have such a high indicated yield, I was admittedly perplexed.
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It is more likely that the culture of the increasingly child-free northern tier and the slow-growth coasts will, to evoke the past, be the ones gone with the wind.
The company is spending billions and hiring thousands to upgrade its remaining "northern tier" refineries in Indiana, Ohio and Washington state to handle a gush of heavy crude from Canada's tar sands.
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There are a small group of MLPs that primarily operate refineries instead: Northern Tier Energy, Alon USA Partners L.P. ( ALDW), Calumet Specialty Products Partners ( CLMT) and CVR Refining L.P. ( CVRR).
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To be sure, southern European countries are running huge trade deficits with the northern tier (especially Germany), but as long as all are tied together by the common currency, internal cost and price adjustments (deflation in the south, inflation in the north) will be slow and painful, and will do little to spark growth for Europe as a whole.
Not only are investors selling debt for southern-tier European countries such as Spain and Italy, but also for healthier northern-tier countries such as France, Finland and the Netherlands.
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Romney could pull other northern-tier states toward the GOP, since he gives it an upscale look it has lacked the past few cycles.
Recently designated a Dark Sky Reserve for its lack of light pollution and the exceptional quality of its night sky, Iveragh is one of only seven such reserves in the world and the first in the northern hemisphere to get gold-tier status, the highest possible grading issued by the International Dark-Sky Association.
Since its launch in November 2008 the Coke bus has been crisscrossing the countryside, targeting kirana stores in second- and third-tier cities, mostly in northern and western India.
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