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Why Big Shopping Bargains Are Bad News For America |
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Monday, 30 November 2009 11:47 |
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 By Barbara Kiviat Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 The price wars have gone nuclear. From Target's $3 coffeemakers to Best Buy's half-price washing machines to Staples's $350 laptops, the theme of this holiday shopping season is, without a doubt, "we sell for less." Even Wal-Mart's commitment to "every day" low prices isn't preventing it from going lower. An online skirmish with Amazon.com that started with $9 hardcover books (books normally sold for three times that amount) has dominoed into other categories, driving down prices on everything from mobile phones to Easy-Bake ovens. The deals are everywhere. Well, pardon my saying so, but I don't want them. I don't want to pay less. If anything, I'd rather pay a little more. |
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Mixed views to controversial GST proposal |
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Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:50 |
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 By Lee Wei Lian
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 — The Najib administration’s move to bite the bullet by strengthening its finances via a new tax regime has drawn mixed reactions from the public as well as industry. Malaysia, along with Hong Kong, is one of the few countries that have put off implementing the goods and services tax (GST) while countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore have long had a form of GST in place. But the country already has a sales and service tax of 5 per cent which will be subsumed by the GST. |
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Global Warming Has Sped Up Since Kyoto |
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 09:26 |
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 By AP / SETH BORENSTEIN Monday, Nov. 23, 2009
(WASHINGTON) — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 November 2009 09:29 |
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Holiday Shopping: This Year It's a Game of Chicken |
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 14:35 |
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By Janet Morrissey Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 
For many consumers, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the weeks that follow will be a good time to sit on their hands. Cash-conscious shoppers are hoping to see a repeat of 2008's eye-popping discounts, when markdowns, even on high-end fashion duds, exceeded 75% in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Although retailers are insisting that they won't resort to jaw-dropping discounts this year, what happens will ultimately depend on how much and how quickly they get consumers to start spending. And it won't be easy. |
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How Protecting the Jungle Can Help Combat Global Warming |
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Monday, 23 November 2009 15:06 |
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 By Andrew Marshall / Ulu Masen Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 There are two important things to know about tracking wild elephants, and it's better to learn both of them before you're actually in the jungle, tracking wild elephants. First, elephants are fast. In thick forest — in this case, the vast Ulu Masen ecosystem in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where leeches writhe beneath your feet and white-handed gibbons hoot from the treetops — they can outpace even deer. Second, elephants can't climb trees. This is good, because that's precisely what you're meant to do if one of them charges. |
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