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Federal IT hiring slips with political deadlock
2013-09-27 16:11:36| InfoWorld: Top News
IT hiring by the federal government is trending downward, with fewer jobs posted each month this year than last year, according to a Computerworld analysis of employment data. The government had been posting well over 200 IT jobs a month, but since the budget sequestration went into effect in March, the IT job postings have dropped to about 150 a month.
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Climate change: UN makes high-risk attempt to break deadlock on talks
2013-09-20 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The United Nations secretary general is to invite world leaders next week to an unprecedented summit on climate change, in the hope of breaking the long deadlock on global warming talks. The high-risk strategy will put heads of state and government together to talk about the issue for the first time since the Copenhagen summit in 2009 ended in scenes of farce and disarray. Ban Ki-moon has decided he must convene the meeting because of the stalemate in the talks for the past four years, with international...
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Diplomatic push mooted for Russias climate deadlock
2013-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Print Edition: Europe on Thursday mooted a diplomatic push to persuade Russia to stop blocking a UN-appointed body tasked with laying vital groundwork for a global pact on climate change. At talks in Bonn, Russia cited procedural objections to frustrate work in one of three bodies of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) where the 2015 deal is being drafted. The technical Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) threw in the towel on Tuesday, achieving nothing in the 12-day negotiating round...
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US: Global cotton futures contract discussions in deadlock
2013-05-22 13:32:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The head of an inter-governmental group of cotton producing, consuming and trading countries has attempted to dispel the fog surrounding deadlocked industry discussions over the first-ever global cotton futures contract.
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European Stocks Decline on Italian Deadlock
2013-02-26 17:42:20| Chemicals - Topix.net
European stocks declined as Italy 's inconclusive parliamentary election renewed concern that the Mediterranean nation will dilute its austerity program and the region's sovereign-debt crisis will deepen.
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