By Joydeep Gupta, Poznan (Poland), Dec 4: Climate change is already drowning homes of people in coastal areas, especially in the developing world. The money available to them from the international community to adapt to a new life is less than a ...
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To reduce costs and “improve operational efficiency, which ultimately benefits ratepayers,” CDE Lightband is making some changes that could have an impact on how some customers choose to pay their electric bill. Effective Jan. 1, the return ...
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As reader BT notes in a comment, our story reminding folks that the Museum of Contemporary Art remains in the art exhibition biz — despite being semi-broke and not sure what to do about it — had the wrong date for the cost-saving closing of the ...
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Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- AbitibiBowater Inc. , the world’s largest newsprint maker, will reduce paper output by closing or idling paper mills in Canada and the U.S. as demand slides. The moves, including the permanent closing of a mill in Grand Falls ...
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Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes have staged a dramatic courtroom protest during the closing stages of the inquest into his death. Five members of the de Menezes family unzipped their coats to reveal t-shirts with the slogans "Your Legal Right to ...
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - When shareholders vote on Bank of America Corp.'s acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. on Friday, they are expected to transform the bank into a business befitting its name and change the face of Wall Street. The shotgun deal ...
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Starbucks, whose sales are slowing as US consumers buy fewer premium coffee drinks, said on Thursday it does not expect to meet Wall Street estimates for the current quarter and would double its cost cuts for the full year. Company executives ...
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