The interim interdict was granted in July 2011 against Netherlands-based GPI and other Greenpeace groups.

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The Genuine Progress Indicator, or GPI, is used in states like Maryland, Vermont and Utah.

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But GPI gave no such undertaking, prompting Cairn to seek a permanent interdict against GPI at the Court of Session.

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Group 1 Automotive (NYSE:GPI) has generated a 6.7 percent increase in same-store revenues through the nine months ended Sept. 30, compared with a year earlier.

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In a written judgment, the judge said he accepted GPI was a separate legal entity from the other Greenpeace bodies and had "no power of direction over them".

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Over recent years, although GDP has risen, GPI has flatlined.

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Still, economists say they would find a GPI useful.

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While male literacy rate is 71.6 percent, it is only 44.5 percent for women, revealing Gender Parity Index (GPI) at 0.62, with women still lagging behind men by more than 27 percentage points.

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Cairn had claimed that the raid on its Edinburgh offices was part of a GPI-led Greenpeace campaign to get hold of Cairns's oil spill response plan and encourage a moratorium on drilling in the Arctic.

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