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Beef Consumption-Demand Struggle
2013-02-23 05:03:00| Beef
Although beef demand increased in 2011 and 2012, consumer resistance to supply-driven price increases has made it feel just the opposite in recent weeks (see "Demand Whacks Cattle Prices"). “While beef demand is increasing, it is very likely not increasing fast enough relative to price pressure from falling beef supplies in 2013 and 2014,” explains Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist, in his most recent weekly market comments. read more
Tiverton, Little Compton Real Estate Markets Struggle To Regain Traction
2013-02-19 13:56:28| Real Estate - Topix.net
While local real estate experts say the state's housing market is rebounding, Tiverton and Little Compton are trailing behind, according to reports from the Rhode Island Association of Realtors .
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Chinese struggle through 'airpocalypse' smog
2013-02-16 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Hu Li's heart sank when she realised that she could gauge how close she was to home by the colour of the air. Driving 140 kilometres from Tianjin City to Beijing last week, she held her breath as the chalky-white horizon became a charcoal grey haze. The 39-year-old businesswoman has lived in Beijing for a decade, and this past month, she said, brought the worst air pollution she has ever seen. It gave her husband a hacking cough and left her seven-year-old daughter housebound. "I'm working here and...
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Islands struggle to convince UN Security Council that climate change is a security threat
2013-02-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations appealed to the U.N. Security Council on Friday to recognize climate change as an international security threat that jeopardizes their very survival. Tony deBrum, a minister and assistant to the Marshall Islands president, said the island nations are facing opposition from Security Council permanent members Russia and China and a group of more than 130 mainly developing nations, which argue that the U.N.'s most powerful body is the wrong...
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The Unheard Tree: The Struggle Over Unmanifested Defects in Consumer Class Actions
2013-02-08 07:51:58| Appliances - Topix.net
One of the most famous questions in philosophy is "if a tree fell in a forest and nobody was there to hear it, would it still make a sound?" A similar question dominates the world of consumer class actions.
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