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Amazon blocks pre-order of Disney DVDs amid Hachette spat
2014-08-11 02:37:25| IT Services - Topix.net
Amazon.com blocked the pre- order option of Walt Disney hit movie "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and other titles in disk form, repeating a tactic used in disputes with publisher Hachette and Warner Bros.
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Market Basket is laying off thousands of part-time employees amid family feud
2014-08-07 20:56:45| Grocery - Topix.net
Demoulas Super Markets is laying off thousands of part-time workers by early next week as the company's management reacts to a sharp slowdown in traffic at its 71 Market Basket stores.
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Amid respite, West readies for more wildfires
2014-08-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Wildfires, like earthquakes, are a frightening fact of life in California, just more predictable. So as thousands of firefighters made progress in taming more than a dozen blazes that have pockmarked the northern half of the state, fire officials and anxious residents of drought-afflicted rural communities breathed a shallow sigh of relief they knew might not last long. Light rain and an infusion of personnel and equipment from as far away as San Diego allowed fire crews to continue gaining momentum...
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Canam Group's Q2 profit falls amid lower margins in most of its markets
2014-08-07 12:41:07| Energy - Topix.net
Canam Group Inc. reports it had $4.5 million of net income in its second quarter, down from $7.4 million a year earlier, due to lower margins on the Quebec-based company's specialized structural steel products.
California Debates New Rules for Diminishing Groundwater Amid Historic Drought
2014-08-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: With a historic drought parching the state, California lawmakers are moving this week to begin rationing one of the last unregulated water sources that cities and agriculture interests need to keep the taps flowing. The state legislature is moving measures that would require cities and towns to begin imposing regulations that will ensure groundwater reserves are managed sustainably. The measures would create groundwater-sustainability agencies across the state responsible for coordinating among...
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