Popular chocolate goods such as Cadbury's Dairy Milk, Maltesers and Kit Kat are now fair trade, while ice cream producers Ben and Jerry's will switch to exclusively fair trade ingredients this year.

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For investors who prefer to sacrifice some yield in exchange for greater safety, possibly with the intention of swapping back into speculative grade corporate bonds at a wider spread later on, the most straightforward trade is to switch to Triple-B corporates.

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During earlier inspections in the mid-1990s, trust had broken down badly in the council when first Russia and China, then France, tiring of mounting Iraqi intransigence, argued for a switch to less intrusive monitoring and an easing of sanctions so that trade could resume.

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For example, if our laptop were to fail at a trade show, being able to access the camera menu and switch to our phones or tablets would make a great backup.

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But China's accession to the World Trade Organisation, which brings a package of market-opening concessions, sealed the switch to unconditional relations.

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But the connection from Hoboken down to the World Trade Center tunnels is still severed, as the railroad awaits delivery of a replacement track switch.

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So he made a dramatic career switch, breaking free of Microsoft's golden handcuffs in 2003 and three years later starting a company called Fair Trade Sports, which makes balls for soccer, basketball, football and rugby using rubber cultivated in pesticide-free plantations in India and Sri Lanka.

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