La Nina tends to steer winter storms over the northern states, and El Nino more typically brings storms across the southern tier of the nation.

“拉尼娜”在北部各州会产生冬季风暴，“厄尔尼诺”则倾向于产生能够横跨国家南部各层的风暴。

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A brother at Fredensborg in the northern city of the two-tier small building.

一幢位于哥市北部弗雷·登斯堡的两层小楼。

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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.

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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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