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...urgent step" needed to tamp down demand and encourage refiners to ramp up production. The price hike is likely to alleviate the shortages - that is, until the next increase in global crude prices, says Gordon Kwan, a Hong Kong-based oil and gas analyst for CLSA Ltd. "When retail prices [in China] are nearly a third lower than in the rest of the world, why would producers want to boost supply?" Kwan asks. "The best way to solve the problem is to lift government regulation on prices...
...building new ones. "Plots out here," he says waving at the land beyond the university close to the African Union base, "were just left empty. They were worth maybe $1,000 three or four years ago. Now the same ones are being bought for $15,000." All the retail space has been rented out in the new office block, which will become Darfur's tallest building on its completion...
Expected online retail sales this holiday season, up 21% from last year; 11% of those surveyed plan to do at least three-fourths of their holiday shopping online...
...that deems plasma TVs a necessary expense but balks at living wages for its workers, fair trade policies for its produce, and its perennial anathema, extended dining hours. Apparently, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) was able to make this decision because it derives profits from its “retail operations.” This begs the question, why should a university dining service be extracting profits from those who already pay its operating budget? As its name implies, HUDS is not a corporation, but a service. “Profits,” if there are any, should...
...family is familiar with all this, as are the growing number of U.S. households "adopting" animals these days. The agencies tend to be cheaper than retail pet shops, and the families tend to feel they're doing a good deed by taking in a dog or cat that may have been abandoned or abused. A few years ago we turned to a "Schnauzer rescue" agency because, after our first miniature Schnauzer died of old age, we decided we liked the breed but were having trouble finding an affordable buy from stores or specialist breeders...