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Junkyard Find: 1992 Geo Metro 4-door hatchback

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You could buy versions of this car all the way through 2017 in Pakistan. I suspect that the radio was a junkyard-obtained unit swapped in long after purchase, since body parts have been swapped as well. Amazingly, the right-side mirror was included at no extra cost on all 1992 Metro models except the gas-mileage-king XFi.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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As the historian Brian Jirout argues in his 2017 article “ Farming from Space: Landsat and the Development of Agricultural Surveillance During the Cold War ,” the Soviet grain deal created the urgency and anxiety necessary for the USDA to propose the Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment, to predict both domestic and foreign crop yields.

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Opinion: Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting

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CME Brent oil futures project continuity: as of August 18, 2015, CME Brent futures projected the price remaining below $60/bbl until June 2017. million barrels per day in 1H 2015, in part because as Russia's economy contracted, reducing domestic crude demand to 3.47 Moreover, Saudi policy, combined with the impact of U.S.

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Oil Prices Running Out Of Reasons To Rally

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For the better part of two months, optimism surrounding the OPEC deal has buoyed oil prices, but bullish sentiment from speculators are showing early signs of abating, raising the possibility that the oil rally is running out of steam. On top of that, Kuwait’s envoy to OPEC said that Qatar, Kuwait and Oman were also complying with the cuts.