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Decarbonising the economy: the pivotal role of the financial sector

2013-07-19 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The physicist Niels Bohr defined an expert as "a person who has found out, by his own painful experience, all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field." If Bohr's description is accurate, we are all about to become experts on climate change. 2012 was the hottest year on record in the US, and China's most recent winter was its coldest in 30 years. According to research by MunichRe, meteorological and hydrological catastrophes have been rising steadily along with the emissions of greenhouse...

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Buy-in from all levels pivotal to apparel PLM success

2013-07-18 19:45:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

In theory, the decision to invest in a product lifecycle management (PLM) system shouldn't be a hard sell, with well-documented benefits including faster development cycles and greater control over costs and collaboration. Yet in reality, one of the biggest challenges facing apparel PLM projects still seems to be convincing stakeholders and shareholders that it is worth embarking on.

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Steve Jobs' draft email plays pivotal role in antitrust case

2013-06-19 14:07:28| InfoWorld: Top News

An email composed, but never sent, by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs may prove instrumental in the Justice Department's case that Apple, along with the five largest book publishers, colluded to fix prices for electronic books.

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Pivotal Period Sets Hog Producers Future

2013-05-28 16:48:00| National Hog Farmer

Joe Vansickle The next 60 days will be pivotal for the direction of the U.S. pork industry, says Purdue agricultural economist Chris Hurt. Come the end of July, corn pollination will be finished, and crop farmers will know the fate of the corn crop, and with it the chances for the industry to move forward profitably. Bad Breaks read more

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