Natural resource properties normally trade around 10 times earnings and seven times enterprise value.

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More recently, it has gained prominence amid expectations that melting ice will clear the way for more resource development and free up trade routes.

WSJ: Arctic Body Weighs China's Bid to Observe

The USA.gov site on international trade is also a powerful resource.

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"We are very concerned that the department is moving forward with what is clearly a fundamental change in longstanding policies regarding affirmative action, " said Jeffrey McGuiness, president of the HR Policy Association, a trade group for human-resource executives at more than 300 of the largest private-sector U.S. companies.

WSJ: U.S. Pushes Target for Hiring the

Over the past decade, China's trade has boomed with Afghanistan's resource-rich neighbors in Central Asia.

NPR: Eyeing Rich Bounty, China In Line For Afghan Role

Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontery.

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This means that you should always be trying to make good use of your time, and when you have an excess of another resource (e.g. money), you should seek to trade it for time.

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To help provide easily searchable information on this timely topic, my tech trade association has launched a new website, Patent Progress, to be an online resource on high tech patent issues with copies of filings as well as breaking news and commentary.

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At the time, the former head of the Department of Trade and Industry, said Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP) did not have "the authority or resource to transform their locality in the way our economy needs".

BBC: Lord Heseltine