Published on October 21, 2010 by Technology Slice
Stage 2 Water Restrictions To Stay – Melbourne will stay on Stage 2 water restrictions throughout summer. The restrictions will stay in place until at least the end of March. Water minister Tim Holding said he expected some people would be annoyed that restrictions were not further relaxed, but authorities had to act with caution [...]
Tags: Act, Authorities, Dr David, Gippsland, melbourne, Northern Victoria, People Find, Spokesman, Stage 2, Statewide Basis, Tim Holding, Water Restrictions
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Published on August 2, 2010 by Technology Slice
Saturday Cheapest To Buy Petrol – The cheapest day of the week to fill up has changed seven times over the past 10 months. “We all got used to cheap Tuesday a couple of years ago,” said NRMA Motoring and Services president Wendy Machin. “But over the last 10 months it’s really bounced around.
Tags: 10 Months, Act, Australia, Cheap Tuesday, Federal Government, Investigations, Machin, Major Oil Companies, Motorists, Nrma, petrol prices, Prosecutions, Rational Reason, Sensible Answer, Seven Times, Watchdog, Wendy
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Published on June 20, 2010 by Technology Slice
The 60-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, yesterday told his sentencing hearing he bought the poison in April while the jury was still in deliberations, after a relative of the victim told him, “pack your toothbrush, you’re going down”. After the guilty verdict was delivered, he waited until the jury left the [...]
Tags: Act, April, Crown Prosecutor, Deliberations, Guilty Verdict, Impact Statement, Kara, Lawyer, Maximum Sentence, Millionaire, Old Man, Rat Poison, Sentencing Hearing, Sydney District, Toothbrush, Wendler
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Published on March 12, 2010 by Technology Slice
Aftershocks Continue In Chile – Chile’s new president, Sebastián Piñera, was minutes from being sworn in on Thursday when major aftershocks struck the central coast of this earthquake-ravaged country. But less than an hour after being inaugurated, he appeared on television to announce that troops, relief supplies and even Mr. Piñera himself would be heading [...]
Tags: Act, Aftershocks, Central Coast, Chile Chile, Congress Building, Devastating Earthquake, Inauguration, Initial Response, Magnitude, Michelle Bachelet, National Congress, New President, Pointed Reference, Predecessor, Quake Zone, Right Wing, Television Light, Tremors, Wing Leader, World Leaders
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Published on February 23, 2010 by Technology Slice
New Credit Card Laws 2010, Credit Cards – Just two of the practices targeted – retroactive rate increases and so-called “hair-trigger” penalty interest rates – cost US consumers a minimum of $10 billion per year, according to a recent study by The Pew Charitable Trusts. While it doesn’t address all the concerns of consumer-credit advocates,the [...]
Tags: Accountability, Act, Cardholders, Cards Credit, Consumer Credit, Consumers, Credit Card Laws, Credit Cards, Disclosure, Federal Reserve, Final Phase, Hair Trigger, Legislation, obama, Penalty Interest Rates, Pew Charitable Trusts, Rate Increases
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