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Apple's Not Very Good, Really Quite Poor 2016
Dec 26, 2016As they drift off for their one- or two-day vacations shortly, will Apple's senior executives be patting themselves on the back? Or will they be slapping themselves on the forehead? Apple's 2016 was garlanded with the usual hype, but not ...
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Dubai Probing Rough Diamond Values
Sep 21, 2016From the get go, the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) chairmanship of the Kimberley Process (KP) had a fair share of controversies as civil society, and a number of member states, expressed their concern with seating the 2016 chair in Dubai. ...
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Grundfos Partners with WaterAid
Sep 20, 2016Grundfos and the international development charity WaterAid have announced a new five-year partnership. Grundfos will support WaterAid by providing advice on the use and maintenance of its water systems in some of the world’s ...
Tags: Grundfos, WaterAid, five-year partnership
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Sweden Developing More Efficient Drug to Fight Alcoholism
Dec 29, 2015Swedish researchers said on Wednesday they had taken steps towards developing a more efficient drug to fight alcoholism by tweaking the brain's reward system. A dopamine stabilizer reduces alcohol cravings in humans and normalizes the ...
Tags: Fight Alcoholism, Drug
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Philips Lighting CEO Speaks About Business Opportunities in India
Nov 10, 2015Philips Lighting CEO Eric Rondolat recently met with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the biannual “key market visit” to discuss smart cities, smart lighting and solar lighting opportunities in Indian metropolitans, ...
Tags: Philips Lighting, LED business, business strategy, connected lighting
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When a Good Samaritan Becomes The Target for Extortion
Oct 29, 2015On the morning of Sept 8, a student in Anhui province was bicycling outside her college campus when she spotted an old lady down on the ground, screaming. She stopped to help. The "granny", as women in their senior years are often ...
Tags: Samaritan, Target for Extortion, students
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US Soybean Crop Continues to Deteriorate While Corn Maintains Its Condition Rating
Aug 5, 2015The U.S. soybean crop continues to deteriorate, while corn maintains its condition rating, according to the USDA Monday. In its weekly Crop Progress Report, the governmental agency rated the U.S. soybean crop as 62% good/excellent vs. 63% ...
Tags: Soybean Crop, corn
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Sustainable Cotton Accounts for 76% in Ikea Products
Feb 4, 2015The share of cotton from more sustainable sources used by furniture and home furnishings retailer, Ikea in its products reached 76 per cent and is on track to reach its goal of 100 per cent by August 2015. Sweden based Ikea Group released ...
Tags: Sustainable Cotton, Ikea Products
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Arnott Replied That Ecigarettes Would Still Be Available for General Sales
Jul 2, 2014University College London researchers published their study whose results show that users of ecigarettes who want to quit smoking are 60% more likely to succeed than when they use NRTs or simple willpower. Like other aspects of ecigarettes, ...
Tags: E cigarettes, E-cigarettes
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A New Knitwear Factory Is Planned to Be Constructed in Russian
Apr 18, 2014A new knitwear factory is planned to be constructed in Ali-Yurt village of Russian province of Ingushetia, according to a press release from the Ministry of Construction of the Republic of Ingushetia. Ingushetia lags behind the ...
Tags: Knitwear, knitting sector
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Interface Recently Received Two Sustainability Honors
Apr 15, 2014Interface, which publicly issued a Mission Zero promise 20 years ago to eliminate any negative effect the manufacturing of its carpet tiles has on the environment by 2020, recently received two sustainability honors. The Architizer A+ ...
Tags: Construction, Rugs
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This Initiative Is Part of USDA and EPA's Ongoing Partnership
Apr 3, 2014The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency today announced a joint initiative to improve access to clean water and wastewater infrastructure for U.S. communities along the Mexico border. This initiative is ...
Tags: Agriculture, EPA, Certification
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Australian Food and Grocery Sector Is Supportive of The Australian Government's Actions
Mar 25, 2014Australia's food and grocery body welcomes Government's deregulation moves The Australian food and grocery sector is supportive of the Australian Government's actions to reduce the regulatory burden on business, according to industry body ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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London Businesses and Politicians Calls on Government to Scrap Alcohol Duty Escalator
Mar 13, 2014London businesses and politicians have called on the government to scrap a planned hike in alcohol taxes to give the capital’s hospitality sector a boost. Pubs, producers, MPs and retailers joined the TaxPayers' Alliance and the ...
Tags: alcohol taxes, more jobs, hospitality sector
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An Alliance Said It Will Support Vaccination of 1.5 Million Girls in Rwanda
Mar 8, 2014An alliance that helps developing nations said it will support vaccination of 1.5 million girls in Rwanda, Uganda and Uzbekistan against cervical cancer. The GAVI Alliance, which brings together developing country and donor governments, ...