The firm is planning to put the batteries in a new five-seater family car called the Leaf that it intends to launch late next year in Japan and America as part of its alliance with Renault.

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The fresh, light scent, called Vert Oriental, is meant to mimic green tea leaf during the Chinese spring harvest.

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The eclectic group included the Nissan LEAF electric car and an EBay commerce site called worldofgood.com, that sells products made with socially and environmentally responsible practices.

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The rare leaf is a part of the tobacco plant called the medio tiempo, taken from the upper leaves of the plant, but which not every plant produces, making it rare.

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He also let me leaf through a magnificent 1487 edition of La Comedia, the so-called Brescia Dante printed by Boninus de Boninis, the first edition illuminated with woodcuts.

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We changed the argument from one about the "rights" of so-called private clubs to one about the "wrongs" of a cadre of industry titans using the fig leaf of such memberships to exclude women, the standard this behavior sets in corporate America and damage it does to women at all levels.

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