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Coal Boomtowns Fade as China Declares War on Pollution
2015-03-18 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The streets of this northwestern Chinese city were once packed with Ferraris, BMWs and other luxury cars. Now, they are all gone. Average housing prices here have dropped by a quarter in two years. Driving across the city's downtown, you see vacant buildings and empty restaurants. "The business of coal companies here turned south since late 2012," Yang Cheng, a local driver, explained while passing by a closed hotel. "Yulin is a coal boomtown," Yang went on. "Once coal businesses are not...
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War on Terror: The Use of Vessels
2015-03-13 11:19:00| Naval Technology
A look at how terrorists are using coastlines to attack.
Supermarket price war hits Waitrose
2015-03-12 17:25:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Waitrose has posted a drop in profit for 2014 as competition for market share in the UK grocery market continues to hit supermarkets' bottom lines.
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Pipeline will bypass Brier Creek Revolutionary War battlefield
2015-03-12 11:44:28| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Beginning a public hearing Tuesday at the Screven County Library, representatives of the Kinder Morgan company announced that a section of the proposed Palmetto Pipeline will be rerouted to avoid a Revolutionary War battleground.
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Select Comfort could face proxy war for board seats
2015-03-09 14:07:27| Furniture - Topix.net
Select Comfort Corp. told shareholders Friday to expect a proxy fight over its refusal to award board seats to a Minneapolis investor group. Bloomberg reports on the disclosure by Plymouth-based Select Comfort , which makes Sleep Number air beds.
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