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Not so bird-brained after all! Britain is getting its own SAVANNAH: National Trust reveals... Including the company's proportionate share of capital spending associated with joint ventures CPChem and WRB, Phillips' total 2023 capital program is projected to be $3.14 billion. (Reporting by Gary McWilliams in Houston and Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva, Krishna Chandra Eluri and Leslie Adler) Total capital spending next year will be about $3.14 billion, up from $2.97 billion budgeted this year, with increases for a new plastics plant and to convert a refinery to produce diesel and gasoline from animal fats and cooking oil.

She's kind, intelligent, generous to a fault. She's had my back when so many haven't. I consider her a friend (and I hope she feels the same), someone I've known for years and who has seen me through the good times and the bad. Scientists have found that human-made noise pollution causes robins living in rural areas to become more physically aggressive (file photo) However, with other robins they are very territorial and will chase away any other intruding birds from their patch. Phillips' spending on refining projects would rise to $1.12 billion, from the $896 million budgeted for this year.

Its budget for CP Chemical, a 50/50 joint venture with Chevron, will rise 29% amid work on a new polymer plant. Celebrities prove not everyone can tackle a trend as stars... Risque cuts, eye-popping mirrored numbers and VERY plunging... Flight attendant spills her secrets from the sky - and names... Home baker shocked by 'impossible' three-ingredient cookies... No, the people these strikes are really going to hurt are ordinary working families, those in society who already have the fewest options in life and who now, at the one time of year when even they can usually afford themselves a little fun and levity, find themselves well and truly stuffed.

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