What convinced him that this was a trend with legs was a visit to a tiny Texas mine called Vasquez, whose anticipated 400, 000-pound yearly output was a pittance.

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ENA's yearly output, let alone its highest flyers.

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The European Union's yearly spending amounts to about 1% of the region's annual economic output.

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