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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EL Paso Corporation, of Texas, is making preparations to begin work on the Blue Atlantic Transmission System, a pipeline project designed to transport new natural gas supplies off the coast of Canada’s Nova Scotia to eastern and the north-eastern regions of the USA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOOM in the robot market that continued through the 1990’s into last year has hit the skids in north America, where demand plummeted by 28 per cent in the half-year to June. However, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and International Federation of Robotics says that in Europe, the market is still expanding, with sales rising by 11 per cent in the first six months of 2001.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE has been added to a European Commission blacklist of Member States who have concluded so-called ‘Open Skies’ agreements with the United States, which grants relevant national airlines additional landing writes in America. Brussels opposes the deals, because they discriminate against carriers from EU countries which have not made similar agreements and also because they help US airlines compete with those based in Europe: the deals allow planes to fly onto a third country, a mixed blessing for EU carriers flying to the US, given its size.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
COSMETICS group founder, Mary Kay Ash has died in Dallas, aged 83. Famous for her company’s recognisable pink Cadillacs, her products were sold by 400,000 women, making the company America’s second largest direct mail cosmetics business.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
DESPITE its rejection by America, the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has now been agreed and is set to move towards ratification and implementation within two years. Ministers from 180 countries reached a compromise deal over the treaty after lengthy negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco at the week-end (finished on Saturday 10th).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
DESPITE its rejection by America, the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has now been agreed and is set to move towards ratification and implementation within two years. Ministers from 180 countries reached a compromise deal over the treaty after lengthy negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco at the week-end (finished on Saturday 10th).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from the World Trade Organisation has concluded that the growth in global commerce has fallen steeply and is now expected to reach just two per cent, compared with much healthier estimates at the start of the year and a 12 per cent boom in the year 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHOCOLATE sales have been buoyed in north America following the terror attacks in the United States and the deepening recession says John Rowsome, President of the Confectionery Manufacturers of Canada. Speaking to the Toronto Globe and Mail he said: “Candy sales are exceedingly buoyant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH experts have been discussing a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD), which has shown Britain performs poorly against its competitors in western Europe and north America, regarding the number of nurses employed per head of population in the late 1990’s.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICA’S Readers Digest Association Inc. showed a significant loss of US 1.1 million or a penny a share for the quarter ended September 30, 2001, compared with a net income at US $22.3 million or 21 cents a share for the same period last year.…