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That was back when high and rising oil prices helped to maintain Venezuela’s revenues even as economic mismanagement sent oil production into a downward spiral.

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This artificial hierarchy, because it goes against human desires to be free, required a tremendous amount of violence to maintain.

But one of them was to maintain the economic order of the South, which required not just a supply of cheap labor but an oversupply of cheap labor to work at the will of the land.

But I realized that the grant-writing was going well, because I was able to focus and maintain my attention for longer than I had before.

So ultimately, 20 million square feet of asphalt was replaced or avoided, and electrical consumption for air-conditioning went down, while employment for people to maintain those grounds went up, resulting in a net-savings to the system, but also healthier students and schools system employees as well.

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