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Erosion

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Erosion

description: The wearing away of land surface by wind, water, glaciers, chemicals, and exposure to the atmosphere. Erosion occurs naturally but can be intensified by land-clearing practices related to farming, residential or industrial development, road building or deforestation.

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 13 hours ago - 4 Documents (in Market News)

Newspaper Ad Revenue Drops 28 Percent in Quarter

SAN FRANCISCO -- Newspaper advertising revenue in the U.S. plunged 28% in the third quarter to $6.4 billion.The figures released Thursday by the Newspaper Association of America leave little doubt newspapers will likely have to manage through the fourth ... [Moneynews - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Newspaper Association of America, Erosion, San Francisco (United States)

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 Documents

MFs turn to CPs, CDs for higher returns

MUMBAI: Fixed income fund managers are increasingly shunning treasury bills (T-bills), in favour of longer-duration money market interments like commercial papers (CPs) and bank certificates of deposit (CDs), in the hope of capturing better yields. The ... [Economictimes - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Money Market, Treasury Bills, Erosion

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Don't Just Blame the Corps -- By: Stephen Spruiell

A federal judge has decided to hold the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers liable for the flooding in New Orleans that followed Hurricane Katrina. At issue is the Corps' maintenence of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO), a rarely used shipping channel ... [National Review - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Stephen Spruiell, New Orleans, Ivor van Heerden, Erosion, Hurricanes

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Raúl Castro Ruz

70 percent of Cuba's farmland under threat

Seventy percent of Cuba's land under cultivation is being affected by erosion, salinity and acidity, agriculture ministry officials said.The director of the Soil Institute, Dagoberto Rodriguez, said Wednesday at a press conference in Havana that only ... [Sify - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Cuba, Salinity, Acidity, Raúl Castro Ruz

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Incorrectly flighted ads cost advertisers R270m

A STUDY by Deloitte has found 9% of radio advertising booked was not broadcast as scheduled, amounting to a R270m erosion of annual advertising spending. The recession has forced companies to slash marketing budgets and demand greater justification from ... [Business Day - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Erosion, Recession

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

A$ expected to push higher in 2010

Following its 48% rise against the US$ over the past eight months (and 35% against the yen), the A$ is expected to push even higher in 2010. According to recent forecasts from some of Australia’s major financial institutions, the A$ is expected to peak ... [Meat & Livestock Australia - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Australia, Japan, Fallout, Erosion, US Dollar

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Senate charges Executive on electoral reforms, erosion

the Limit for election cases: how desirable.President Yar'Adua, on whose behalf Vice President Goodluck Jonathan declared the retreat open, kicked off the frank appraisal of the rot in the electoral system and pointed out that only a positive change in ... [Nigeria Guardian - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Elections, Petition, Tribunal, Erosion

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Mike's Blog Roundup

Matthew Yglesias: Canada turns a blind eye to torture. So does Lithuania... Margaret and Helen: Thanksgiving letter to the family, 2009 The Agonist: A Tale of Two Belles Rising Hegemon: The terrorists who will be tried in NYC are not comic book ... [Crooks and Liars - 11/19/2009]

Entities: The Agonist, Loving v. Virginia, Matthew Yglesias, Lithuania

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Banks and telcos biggest losers of the public's trust

THE global financial crisis has left a large dent in the level of trust people place in many well-known brands, with banks and telecommunications companies the worst-affected.A survey by Sweeney Research and the advertising group Grey Global found that ... [Sydney Morning Herald - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Grey Global Group Inc, Paul Gardner, Australia Post

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Dallas City Council considers new rules tackling stormwater runoff

Dallas could soon ask developers to control the quality, as well as the quantity, of stormwater runoff under a plan being examined by City Hall.The City Council is considering adopting new standards that could help preserve open space and natural runoff ... [Dallas Morning News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Stormwater, Dallas (Texas, United States), Erosion, Fédération Internationale de Football...

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Commercial Insight: Antipsychotics - Revenues Of Depots And New Agents Will Partially Offset Generic Erosion - New Report Published

New report provides detailed analysis of the Healthcare and Medical market Published on November 19, 2009by Press Office(Companiesandmarkets.com and OfficialWire)LONDON, ENGLAND In 2008, seven major market sales of antipsychotics reached $18.2 billion. ... [OfficialSpin - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Erosion, FAIR USE, Abilify

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Business as usual

If ever there were any doubt that the auto industry is back to business as usual, you only need look as far back as the recent announcement at southern Ontarios CAMI manufacturing complex.For those unaware of the announcement, politicians came out to ... [Autonet.ca - 11/19/2009]

Entities: General Motors Corporation, Credit Crisis, Buick Regal, GMC Terrain, Chevrolet Equinox

Quotes

"I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. The Filipino people deserve better from those to whom they can entrust our nation's highest offices and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it" he added

Roxas: 'Honored' to share LP aspirations for good gov't [Senate of the Philippines - 3 hours ago]

...As explained by Rooke, "It is about sharing a problem with communities, and then engaging with them to find solutions."

Heeding high water [Public Service - 4 hours ago]

...'Privately they're saying, 'look what happened when we let Democrats, even pro-life Democrats get into power,' ' said R Randolph "Randy Brinson, a conservative activist who founded Redeem the Vote, a national effort to get young evangelicals to vote. 'They're trying to re-poach that territory.' Although the declaration's positions are hardly new for religious conservatives, it says social ills have been exacerbated by the election of pro-choice President Obama, as well as a general erosion of what it calls 'marriage culture' with the rise of divorce, greater acceptance of infidelity and the uncoupling of marriage from childbearing."

Christian leaders take issue with certain laws [Washington Post - 4 hours ago]

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Botanical Whales [Science News Online - 2 hours ago]
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High gold price threatens Indian marriage culture [CommodityOnline - 3 hours ago]
Heeding high water [Public Service - 4 hours ago]
Negotiating for social justice: Collective barg... [International Labour Organization - 4 hours ago]
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MFs keep off T-bills, turn to CPs, CDs for high... [Economictimes - 9 hours ago]
Europe risking irrelevance as world moves on [FT.com - Brussels - 10 hours ago]
READERS RESPOND - on Mandatory Continuing Educa... [Canadian Consulting Engineer - 10 hours ago]
Councils gain more powers to manage floods [Post Magazine UK - 10 hours ago]
Sunil Duggal, CEO, Dabur India [Economictimes - 10 hours ago]
MFs keep off T-bills, turn to CPs [Economictimes - 10 hours ago]
‘Urban growth is staging a revival’ [Economictimes - 10 hours ago]

Blogs

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Sprint: Moody’s Downgrades Debt On Weak Earning... [WSJ.com: Tech Trader Daily - 9 hours ago] Moody’s today downgraded its corporate family rating on Sprint Nextel (S) to Ba2 from Ba1 “because the company’s ability to stem the deterioration of its earnings ...
Noted: Why BHP won’t revisit Rio [DealZone - 13 hours ago] The year-long ban BHP Billiton has had on revisiting a takeover of rival miner Rio Tinto will soon end, but it seems as if the moment has passed. Liberum and Investec ...
U.S. Power Slipping, Analysts Warn [DoD Buzz - 13 hours ago] Two influential analysts told lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week that America’s strategic position in the world is eroding. America is losing its technological ...
Angus Reid (Far and Wide) [Progressive Bloggers - 13 hours ago] The latest AR poll shows a huge gap between the two principles, Liberal support eroding. The first pollster to peg Liberal support below 30% in Ontario, teens in ...
ThinkFast: November 20, 2009 [Think Progress - 17 hours ago] “The tea party movement has become so rife with internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money that some supporters fear it will disintegrate before realizing ...

Audio/Video

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Underground Psychology [Slate Magazine - 11/17/2009]
Psychologists have been watching us on the subw... [Slate Magazine - 11/17/2009]
Is protecting consumers from uncooked oysters a... [Slate Magazine - 11/11/2009]
Raw Deal [Slate Magazine - 11/11/2009]
Rendell Says Unemployment Might Rise in Pennsyl... [Bloomberg - YouTube - 11/07/2009]

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