Compassion in World Farming, a lobby group, fears that crowded-in heifers will be stressed and unhappy.
Michael Grisso of the Alliance for Rail Competition, a lobby group, says that monopoly power is the problem.
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The National Federation of Independent Business, a lobby group, says small-business confidence is at its lowest ebb in three decades.
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The system coped with the first influx of renewable energy, says Rainer Baake, who heads a lobby group called Agora Energiewende.
He set up a lobby group called the Centre For Self Reliance and campaigned for access rights in Sarajevo for wheelchair users.
Compassion in World Farming, a lobby group, says that half the sheep killed in France are conscious when their throats are slit.
Meanwhile a lobby group warned 300, 000 more homes faced imminent fuel poverty.
The Forum of Private Business, a lobby group, says 84% of its members spent more time dealing with regulation than in 2009.
Grover Norquist, the head of Americans for Tax Reform, a lobby group, replied that governments should not regulate private behaviour unless it was criminal.
In Britain the European High Yield Association (EHYA), a lobby group for participants in the leveraged-finance market, has called for a Chapter 11-style insolvency process.
But Donald Spruston of the International Business Aviation Council, a lobby group, told last month's conference that something needed to happen before next year's Olympics.
Ludwig Scharinger, the boss of Raiffeisenbank, another bank, and Christoph Leitl, the head of the Economic Chamber, a lobby group, are in favour of the plan.
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The Air Transport Association, a lobby group for airlines, charged after the snow debacle that airports should be held accountable, along with airlines, for providing services to passengers.
For a graphical look at U.S. export growth to China by state, see the U.S. China Business Council, a lobby group representing U.S. companies doing business in China.
In March Christian Concern, a lobby group that opposes gay marriage, booked rooms for its conference at the Law Society, a statutory body that represents solicitors in England and Wales.
The National Housing Federation, a lobby group, reckons 182, 000 planned houses have been cancelled, and that 75 local authorities have delayed or reduced housing plans, in anticipation of new guidance.
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Replacing 40 different directives with one broad band of red tape should make chemical registration faster and less cumbersome, says Franco Bisegna of the European Chemical Industry Council, a lobby group.
Another poll by the Climate Institute, a lobby group, found support for Mr Rudd in dealing with climate change had dropped by ten points from February last year, to 36% this month.
The International Capital Market Association, a lobby group, has warned that the tax would cause the short-term repo market in Europe to contract by at least two-thirds, with serious consequences for other financial markets and the real economy.
Meanwhile UN Watch, a lobby group that counters UN criticism of Israel, has gleefully recalled the fulsome praise for Libya that many council members offered when that country was undergoing a review of its performance a few months ago.
In this context, notes Ms Tillman, the fact that a recent study by a lobby group found one-third of issuers to be unhappy with their ratings is reassuring evidence that the potential conflict is, in fact, well managed.
According to Julie Major, of the International Biochar Initiative, a lobby group based in Maine, infusing savannah in Colombia with biochar made from corn stover (the waste left over when maize is harvested) caused crops there to tower over their char-less peers.
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"The growth in the industrial and manufacturing sector remains an area of concern as positive growth of 2.4% in January 2013 comes over a low base, " said Naina Lal Kidwai, president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, a lobby group.
This echoes arguments made by drug firms against makers of generic drugs. (Never mind that innovation in software tends to occur in universities and start-ups, not big firms.) Microsoft is advancing it through a lobby group, the Initiative for Software Choice, hoping to dissuade governments from using open-source software.
"Calpers will be sending very strong signals to those countries that all is not right and there are concerns and that is a good thing to happen, " Tessa Tennant, who recently set up a lobby group in Asia, the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment told the BBC's World Business Report.
Biofuels Watch, a British lobby group, worries that a craze for the stuff could see virgin land tilled specifically to grow crops such as switchgrass, whose only purpose was to be pyrolised and buried.
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Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition lobby group in Washington DC, said there was a lack of evidence.
The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, a Washington lobby group, agrees that the White House's plan does nothing to lower individual tax rates, a move it says would help small-business owners and the self-employed.
Mr Adams comments came following a statement by a loyalist lobby group, the Loyalist Commission blaming republicans for the collapse of the political institutions.
But the fiscal proceeds from 3G matter less than the economic gains, according to Tom Phillips of the GSM Association, a telecoms lobby group.
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