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  • But with Apple moving to install giant solar arrays and a fuel cell power station at its iDataCenter in North Carolina as part of an effort to create a coal-free iCloud, Greenpeace on Thursday issued a report that gives a slight upgrade to low marks the group previously gave the company.

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  • The Manchester United man had earned victory over Northern Ireland on Saturday with a curling free-kick and produced another fine effort to hit the back of the net.

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  • His opening 68 was the only bogey-free effort in the first round at Carnoustie and his performance caught the imagination of both spectators and the media alike at the famous Scottish links.

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  • It was the Dutchman who was the catalyst for a series of chances, first giving warning with a free-kick before Hutton blazed an effort wide and then Pavlyuchenko almost touched in Gareth Bale's cross.

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  • Over the past few decades, Bangladesh and various NGOs have instituted several educational programmes such as universal (compulsory and free) primary education and the establishment of village libraries and village study circles in an effort to provide its citizens with access to quality education and thus to promote national economic development, poverty alleviation and social empowerment and transformation.

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  • It can be used to identify the general drift of policies, such as Margaret Thatcher's effort to restrict government interference with the free market.

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  • And investors are free to think opinions are opinions, and take them with a grain of salt in an overall due diligence effort.

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  • The five MPs - who are all members of the Free Enterprise Group of Tory MPs - say the UK needs to reward a culture of "graft, risk and effort" if it is to compete with fast-growing nations.

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