Aldy said the economic benefits from avoided health problems and saved lives are clear while Cass said the cost to industry to adhere to the air pollution limits is not worth it.

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"You would have to be living under a rock not to know there is still a need, " said Cass Woods, the project coordinator of Coastal Women for Change.

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Ajay Bhalla, professor of global innovation management at Cass Business School, said that at the root of Tesco's US problems was a failure to understand that the US retail landscape is different from the UK's.

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Andre Spicer, a professor of Organizational Behavior at the Cass Business School in London, said the loss of a "great leader" such as Ferguson is similar to "enduring a death" for a company.

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The Cass report does not name any of the implicated officers, but said six were on board a van belonging to the now disbanded Special Patrol Group identified as carrier U.11.

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Chief of Staff William Daley, who was brought in to help smooth relations with business, and Cass Sunstein, who heads the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, are said to have been sympathetic to the industry point of view that the rule was unnecessary and could impose too many costs in the midst of a struggling economy, according to people familiar with the matter.

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