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Osborne vows tax avoidance crackdown

2013-06-18 11:25:50| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Chancellor George Osborne unveils plans to stop businesses hiding their profits from the tax authorities in offshore "shell" companies, at the G8 summit.

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As much as a third of the world's food is wasted; UK retailer vows to take action

2013-06-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: Today is World Environment Day, and to mark it, the U.N. Environment Programme and the World Resources Institute are releasing a paper calling for concerted action to reduce food loss and waste. UNEP and WRI estimate that one-third of all food produced annually worldwide, worth about $1 trillion, gets either lost or wasted. Converting this to calories, they say, it means one-quarter of all calories intended for human consumption are never eaten. Boxes of spoiled or blemished food, pulled...

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Nordstrom vows to push - fragile' customer service reputation in Canada

2013-06-06 09:11:08| Apparel - Topix.net

Amazing service and an unrivalled selection of great shoes - that is what the Nordstrom experience will bring to Canada, its president vowed Wednesday.

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Billionaire Democrat vows fight against Keystone by targeting Obama voters

2013-06-04 15:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: A San Francisco billionaire -- a friend to Barack Obama and a major Democratic financier -- is embarking on a mission to block TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline by targeting voters who cast ballots for the president in last year's election. In an open letter to Obama, written by Tom Steyer just two months after hosting the president at his home, the climate-change activist says his political action committee, NextGen Action, is launching a campaign to "intensify our efforts in communicating...

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