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Back to the future as Woolworths re-embraces the double loop
2015-02-27 07:50:18| Grocery - Topix.net
Woolworths chief executive Grant O'Brien regrets not moving earlier to bite the bullet and reinvest cost savings and productivity gains into reducing grocery prices. This strategy, dubbed the virtuous double loop by Woolworths' most successful chief executive, Roger Corbett, and his finance director, Bill Wavish, fuelled years of 10 per cent sales growth, 20 per cent-plus profit growth, and superior shareholder returns at the retailer between 2000 and 2009.
New Fund Helps Cities Build a Climate-smart Future
2015-02-27 02:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The World Bank Group, with financial support from The Rockefeller Foundation, is expanding its program to help cities unlock capital to build the infrastructure that supports a climate-smart urban future. The Rockefeller Foundation has provided a grant of US$1 million as seed funding for a new multi-donor trust fund to improve financial management and enhance creditworthiness of cities in developing countries through the World Bank`s City Creditworthiness Initiative. Vulnerable to sea level...
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New Research Signals Big Future For Quantum Radar
2015-02-27 01:16:41| rfglobalnet Home Page
The new breed of radar is a hybrid system that uses quantum correlation between microwave and optical beams to detect objects of low reflectivity such as cancer cells or aircraft with a stealth capability.
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Nuclear power: The future or the past?
2015-02-27 01:04:27| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Has nuclear power had its day?
Future Rail: Issue 23
2015-02-26 10:47:00| Railway Technology
In this issue: Russias progress with LNG-powered trains, Alstoms H3 diesel hybrid, developing a new city around a rail station, how freight operators are adapting to new European emissions legislation, a look inside the Eurostar e320 and more.
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