Another three companies will list today: Shandong Longquan Pipeline Engineering, a pipe manufacturer, AoKang Shoes, a footwear supplier whose boss Wang Zhentao is a former China Rich List member, and Dongjiang Environmental Company, a waste management company traded in Hong Kong that has arranged a secondary listing in Shenzhen.

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But oil companies are likely to invest less in boosting production if they are forced to divert billions of dollars toward reverse-engineering a smaller pipeline.

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Resistance to genetically modified foods, technical difficulties, legal and business obstacles and the ability to develop improved foods without genetic engineering have winnowed the pipeline.

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All it has to do is hint maybe, probably that there could be a breakup and all eyes turn away from its pipeline and base business to financial engineering.

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The family business Charles inherited consisted of an engineering firm, part-interest in a Minnesota refinery, a crude-oil-gathering pipeline in Oklahoma and some cattle ranches.

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The department, in its recent environmental review of Keystone XL, determined that the engineering plan was sound, and noted that the oil sands will be developed with or without the pipeline.

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