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Little known fact: If Chevron leaves, it has to pay $300 million to $500 million, depending on the current spot price of oil, in deferred capital gains taxes to Burma's inaptly named State Peace & Development Council. (Chevron hasn't yet shared this detail of its contract with its shareholders, perhaps on the theory that the amount is small in relation to its $17 billion net income).
By the time it leaves, it has done nothing to tidy the place up.
An evergreen hydrangea with glossy magnolia-like leaves, it has oval buds that turn into showy white lacecap flowers.
Spearmint (Mentha spicata) grows to about 90 cm (3 feet) high, with open spikes of pink or lilac flowers and stalkless leaves; it has the characteristic mint fragrance.
Instead of leaves, it has succulent needles and, says Clarkson, "if I grew it with salt water, it would taste of the sea".
It has been sitting in a sunny window and providing us with leaves ever since, but lately it seems to be declining, and the few leaves it has produced don't have much flavor.
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The Rio de la Plata is no longer there: it has left, it has been pulled away.
Bakhchisarai was no longer the place she had left: it has four Russian-language schools, and one for Tatars.
There is so little time left, it has little other choice.
When top executives leave it has an even larger ripple effect.
What do you have left?" It has been a rocky romance ever since.
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