The Metric Martyr group's appeals against conviction were rejected all the way up to the House of Lords and, in February 2004, by the European Court of Human Rights.

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In the last 19 years Gerdau has acquired and built out operations in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Uruguay and, most recently, the U.S. About 40% of the group's 7.2 million metric tons of annual crude steel production capacity is now outside Brazil.

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The Alpha coal project being developed by Hyderabad-based infrastructure group GVK would produce up to 86 million metric tons of coal per year, compared to global trade of 938 million tons during 2010.

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The group is not rated on how many papers it produced, a metric used by some university and corporate labs.

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