Kirshner has been joined throughout the process by co-executive producer Mark Squier, a veteran political consultant who worked on Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.

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With cocoa and cotton ready for harvest in Ivory Coast - the economic powerhouse of the region, and the world's largest cocoa producer - every lapse in the peace process creates more economic hardship.

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But still any producer of Amarone would be proud to explain the process of Amarone-making on his label.

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Meanwhile the head of the UK's largest renewable energy producer warns that Wales will lose out on wind farm investment unless the planning process speeds up.

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Ascendant Films , a small movie producer, might spend several months arranging financing for a film--a process that involves a flurry of e-mails and faxes, often leading to plenty of miscommunication, lost time and ballooning costs.

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He wrote 14 pages of a novel in a joltingly weird voice and emailed them to Mr. Salerno, a writer-producer who was trying to help him get a movie that could be made outside the usual studio development process, where good scripts often go to die.

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