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Concerns over 'persistent' card debt

2015-11-03 11:51:38| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Borrowers with "persistent debt" but who manage to make minimum repayments are receiving little help from credit card firms, the financial regulator warns.

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Persistent delays raise questions about O'Hare promises

2015-06-05 10:31:10| Airlines - Topix.net

In this Oct. 5, 2010, file photo, an American Airlines jet, right, taxis past United Airlines and United Express jets at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago as the Willis Tower looms in the background. Chicago's aviation department and Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office billed the opening of runway 10 Center - 28 Center in 2013 as a game-changing moment in a massive decade-old project to modernize O'Hare's airfield layout.

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Marine Corps Leadership 'Very Pleased' With 1st Successful Demonstration Of DARPA's Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) System

2015-04-07 04:46:54| rfglobalnet Home Page

Close air support (CAS)—delivery of airborne munitions to support ground forces—is difficult and dangerous because it requires intricate coordination between combat aircrews and dismounted ground forces (for example, joint terminal attack controllers, or JTACs).

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Arctic melt brings more persistent heat waves to US, Europe

2015-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: The U.S., Europe and Russia face longer heat waves because summer winds that used to bring in cool ocean air have been weakened by climate change, German researchers said. Rapid Arctic warming disturbs air streams in ways that have significantly reduced summer storms, raising the likelihood of heat waves, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said in a report Thursday in the journal Science. Hot weather in Russia in 2010 devastated crop harvests and caused wildfires. Unabated...

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