Cardiff gets sold off to a larger company to keep cranking out computers and Cameron has left to form Mutiny, an early version of an online gaming company where the modems are still dial-up and the most ingenious game is a full-colour version of backgammon.
John Kerry, America's new secretary of state, is to visit Seoul on April 12th.Continually cranking up the volume risks rapidly diminishing the credibility of North Korean threats.
The factory of the past was based on cranking out zillions of identical products: Ford famously said that car-buyers could have any colour they liked, as long as it was black.
The prospect of a Labour government being propped up by a block of nationalist MPs offends many English voters, and the Tory campaign machine is cranking out posters and videos that aim to upset them even more.
And any new owner if one could be found to take over this dismal prospect for a pittance would have every incentive to keep cranking out power.Besides, even in the extremely unlikely event that the firm's plants were shut down tomorrow, there is enough excess generating capacity in Britain to keep the lights on.
And even though at the moment it is cranking out nearly 10m bpd, roughly the same as Saudi Arabia, it will not be able to keep it up.Hands off our oilThe biggest obstacle the majors face in replacing their reserves is the fundamental perversity of the oil business.
Zev Yaroslavsky, an effusive Los Angeles county supervisor, thundered that the agreement "stinks" and that it would "hurt a lot of people that don't deserve to be hurt".The anger at the local level may be understandable, but the pressure on lawmakers in Sacramento to agree on a budget had been cranking up in recent weeks, and the state was running out of options for short-term funding.
Cranking out babies thus became a form of national security policy.
Might, for example, Vale, a Brazilian giant, bid for Xstrata, which has its headquarters in Switzerland, or could Xstrata bid for Anglo American, based in Britain Even as steel mills around the world fall silent, mining's rumour mill is cranking up again.
China is spending billions cranking up its state media to go global, taking Mr Hu's message of "harmony" to a worldwide audience.A powerful whiffBut the message of harmony will ring hollow abroad if it is secured by muzzling voices at home.
Most cartel members are already cranking out all they can, however.
