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VIDEO: Can phones beat the ticket touts?

2015-10-25 01:06:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

A crop of British start-ups has developed a digital way to get into music gigs, that could make life for touts a lot harder.

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Commerce Secretary Pritzker touts Trans-Pacific Partnership for Oregon

2015-10-21 01:37:29| Footwear - Topix.net

The Obama administration brought its argument for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to Oregon once again on Tuesday, a state that has played a large role in the push for the trade agreement. In May, it was President Obama's visit to Nike to deliver a forceful argument for TPP, which was approved last month by the U.S. and 11 other countries.

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Complaint charges Duke Energy touts clean power in West while polluting Southeast

2015-10-07 15:24:08| Energy - Topix.net

Crews work on an underground stormwater pipe that broke beneath a coal ash pond during cleanup operations at a decommissioned Duke Energy coal-fired plant in Eden, N.C., on Feb. 4, 2014. Crews work on an underground stormwater pipe that broke beneath a coal ash pond during cleanup operations at a decommissioned Duke Energy coal-fired plant in Eden, N.C., on Feb. 4, 2014.

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New UN climate science chief touts role for business

2015-10-07 12:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: The UN climate science body needs to harness private sector knowledge, its newly elected chair said on Wednesday. Hoesung Lee called for a more bottom-up approach to compiling the periodic Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports. The South Korean energy economist, who started his career at US oil major Exxon in the 1970s, told journalists businesses had a role to play. A vast degree of knowledge and expertise are embedded in the business sector, he said. ...

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