South Africa will take over as the KP chair next year, and Milovanovic said that China had volunteered to serve as deputy chair - a step which could see Beijing, which is working hard to cement ties with resource-rich African nations, take over the full chairmanship in 2014.

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As social media has quickly evolved over the years, major events have had to learn the hard way the value of the resource and its ability to both help and hurt a business.

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Mining and resource shares were also hard hit.

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The EIA report has added fuel to that fire, as it will be hard for the world to ignore a fuel resource of this size.

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The scale of human trafficking in the US is hard to gauge, but the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, operated by Polaris Project since December 2007, has received more than 57, 000 calls from every state in the union.

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In a bad situation, a strong communications professional will be the best resource to help determine how to handle a hard situation as well as you can.

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These hard asset investments include companies that own and produce an underlying natural resource.

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Energy and sustainability strategies are about hard-core business decisions and going back to the basics of managing resources and resource use.

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Back in the day we were asking our PCs to do the heavy lifting of running those resource intensive client-server applications that required lots of memory, local hard drive space and processing power.

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