Magento: Change the ‘Price’ sort by option to ‘Price: Low > High’ and ‘Price: High > Low’

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This is a quick way of change the Price sort by option in Magento, to ‘Price: Low > High’ and ‘Price: High > Low’.
I know there is the sort by direction ‘arrow’ next to the sort by option, but it is not clearly visible to the customers.

So, make the following changes to the /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml file.
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<option value="<?php echo $this->getOrderUrl($_key, 'asc') ?>"<?php if($this->isOrderCurrent($_key)): ?> selected="selected"<?php endif; ?>>     <?php echo $this->__($_order) ?> </option>

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<?php if ($_order != 'Price'): ?> <option value="<?php echo $this->getOrderUrl($_key, 'asc') ?>"<?php if($this->isOrderCurrent($_key)): ?> selected="selected"<?php endif; ?>>     <?php echo $this->__($_order) ?> </option> <?php else: ?> <option value="<?php echo $this->getOrderUrl($_key, 'asc') ?>"<?php if($this->isOrderCurrent($_key) && $this->getCurrentDirection() == 'asc'): ?> selected="selected"<?php endif; ?>>     <?php echo $this->__($_order) . ': Low > High' ?> </option> <option value="<?php echo $this->getOrderUrl($_key, 'desc') ?>"<?php if($this->isOrderCurrent($_key) && $this->getCurrentDirection() == 'desc'): ?> selected="selected"<?php endif; ?>>     <?php echo $this->__($_order) . ': High > Low' ?> </option> <?php endif; ?>