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		<title>The perplexing topic of food pricing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fruit and vegetables]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sue Kedgley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past week has shown that grocery foods are a perplexing topic, as media have prominently featured several items and angles relating to food and supermarket pricing.
Green MP Sue Kedgley led off last week with calls for a government enquiry and a code of practice for fruit and vegetable margins. Not surprisingly she was joined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plenty for the Commerce Commission in the holiday homes market</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Commerce Commission issued a “warning” to the bookshop chain, Borders, over a misleading voucher scheme which the retailer promoted before Christmas.
This promotion offered $20 in vouchers for every $75 spent at Borders until Christmas.  In the small print, however, it was specified that the customer could redeem one $10 voucher in January [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government showing deft communication touch</title>
		<link>http://www.prmatters.co.nz/government-showing-deft-communication-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tax changes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Government’s handling of the tax changes to be announced in the May budget show a masterly understanding of managing long term communications.
Delegate the task of putting forward ideas to a third party (a commission) and then immediately reject the most controversial (phew, it’s not going to be as bad as it could be!); talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will New Zealander’s need to rethink their stance on GE foods and Nuclear Power so we can keep up with the rest of the world?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Dodd</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clean & Green]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr Robert Winston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GMOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Power]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, I need to state that I am a complete fence sitter when it comes to GMOs and Nuclear power. The way I see it is that in an ideal world, we would enjoy the potential benefits while we fully manage the risks. But reality is always less simple.
It has occurred to me of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media serves up hard economic information … but are we interested?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economist Edgar Fielder, who served under Presidents Nixon and Ford, is quoted as saying ‘ask five economists, and you&#8217;ll get five different answers &#8211; six if one went to Harvard’.
This self deprecating comment would draw mirth from his peers because they understood the complexities and intricacies of taking historical economic data, and trying to [...]]]></description>
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