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Activist investors destroying companies, costing jobs, top corporate lawyer says
2013-10-09 00:09:18| Railroads - Topix.net
Bill Ackman, CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square, arrives for the annual meeting Canadian Pacific Railway in Calgary, Thursday, May 17, 2012.
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UN: Food waste costing global economy $750bn a year
2013-09-11 12:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The global crisis in food waste is even graver than previously thought, according to a major new report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) that blames avoidable food waste for 3.3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and annual economic losses totalling $750bn. The new Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources report is described as the first major study to investigate the full range of environmental impacts that result from inefficient food production, distribution,...
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Cybercrime costing economy up to $500B a year, study finds
2013-07-23 17:57:21| CNET News.com
Real-world losses due to cybercrime add up to between $100 billion and $500 billion globally, and more than 500,000 jobs in the U.S. alone, according to report commissioned by McAfee. [Read more]
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How much is cheap meat really costing us?
2013-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC Environment: A FEW DECADES AGO, meat in Australia was considered a luxury. Animals were farmed in the traditional way -- real farms, open pastures. Today, around 95 per cent of meat chickens and pigs eaten in our country are factory farmed. Their value has dropped to the point where Australians treat cheap meat as an entitlement -- where it's not uncommon for people to consume meat three times a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now, I am not obsessed about this issue, but it's not an extreme or outlandish...
Refusing sex survey costing Georgia federal funds
2013-05-25 17:52:43| Biotech - Topix.net
Georgia stands to lose $1.8 million in health-related funding because state officials refuse to participate in a federal survey that asks students from seventh grade through high school questions about their sexual histories.
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