Although that rate has not been matched in 2005, the world as a whole has continued to guzzle oil.

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But capacitor banks tend to be very large and hard to site near customers (who love to guzzle power but complain about new power lines or hardware in their neighbourhood).

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For the next 17 days, more than six million normally prim and sober citizens from every country in the world will descend upon the Theresienwiese festival grounds (Wiesn, for short) to guzzle towering mugs of beer and engage in good cheer and outright debauchery.

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