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Overland Park Took Brunt Of Sprint's Fall Layoffs

2014-11-26 17:41:10| IT Services - Topix.net

The Kansas City Star reports that 1,700 jobs were slashed companywide this fall. Among them, 910 jobs were cut in October and November in Overland Park.

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Asia will bear brunt of climate change, UN panel report says

2014-03-30 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Toronto Star: From small islands to big continents, from the tropics to the poles, climate change is already leaving its mark, damaging crops, spreading diseases and acidifying oceans, says a new blockbuster UN climate science reportreleased in Japan on Monday. The assessment by the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change also warns that the world is ill-prepared and if action is not taken soon, risks could become unmanageable. Asia, the report says, will bear the brunt of climate...

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Hedge funds dodge brunt of selloff as Dalio gains

2014-02-08 04:06:05| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Hedge funds held up better than global stocks last month, falling an average of 0.1 percent as equities slumped amid a selloff in emerging-market currencies and signs of weakness in China.

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Developing nations bear the brunt of extreme weather

2013-11-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: Haiti, the Philippines and Pakistan were the countries that suffered the most due to extreme weather events in 2012, according to the Global Climate Risk Index released yesterday at the UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland. The 2012 events that hit these countries and, so explain their high ranking were Hurricane Sandy in Haiti, Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines, and severe monsoon flooding in Pakistan. "We have lost almost US$15 billion to floods and droughts in the last three years and...

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