And herbicide tolerance has made possible a shift to more benign herbicides and to environment-friendly no-till farming.
These companies often need to build factories and buy expensive industrial equipment to produce environment-friendly electricity, gasoline and other types of power.
Maybe only 25 percent of homebuyers prefer these environment-friendly communities to the average suburban home, Logan said, but the supply is more like 1 percent -- leaving a big, profitable niche.
Most of these new varieties are designed to be resistant to pests and diseases, or to be resistant to herbicides, so that farmers can more effectively control weeds while adopting more environment-friendly no-till farming practices and more benign herbicides.
Those very herbicide-resistant plants, now grown on more than 220 million acres annually worldwide, have spurred the adoption of more environment-friendly herbicides and agricultural practices--changes that have markedly reduced soil erosion, the runoff of agricultural chemicals and carbon dioxide emissions, and increased yields.
China's State Council, or cabinet, said in February that the country needed to raise the efficiency of logistics and transport, and highlighted the need to streamline such operations while encouraging the use of more environment-friendly vehicles as well as "green" warehouses and business parks.
Although such genetic engineering is essentially an extension, or refinement, of techniques that have been around for centuries, it has led to less use of chemical pesticides, a drop in pesticide poisoning of farmers and their families, more environment-friendly agronomic practices and greater profits for farmers.
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People moved here because of the schools, the low crime rate, the job opportunities and a business-friendly environment.
The streets are densely packed with businesses, making for a highly pedestrian-friendly environment.
Japan's increasingly merger-friendly environment, its accounting reforms and banking consolidation may all help.
After easing the user into the new gamepad-friendly environment, the new UI offers three familiar options: Store, Library and Community.
It also confirms that the home office is a stable, business-friendly environment.
Each season traditionally offers a genre-friendly environment for films to open, with summer being the time of year for blockbuster openings and December offering feel-good fare.
On the other hand, parents sending their children to day nurseries can expect a child-friendly environment with a good range of equipment and activities, available all year round and geared towards busy parents.
His record of building roads, ports, power plants and a generally business-friendly environment in Gujarat appeals to a new middle class that wants its politicians to offer people a hand up, not a handout.
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Another idea was put forward: that of creating a business-friendly environment for the economy which would be more beneficial for the country than to punish businesses which made profits during and even from apartheid.
Mr. Saverin, who hails from a wealthy Brazilian family, has never fully explained why he moved to Singapore in late 2009, but he has mentioned its strategic location and business-friendly environment in his few public appearances.
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Job growth, lack of personal income taxes on a state level, and a business-friendly regulatory environment all contributed to Texas welcoming the most newcomers of any state 427, 400 people over the course of the year.
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Although the announcement Ken Feinberg, the federal pay czar, has made with respect to limiting bonuses will undoubtedly be politically popular, what steps, if any, is the government considering to keep the top talent from leaving the U.S. financial community and moving to a more friendly regulatory environment -- considering a brain drain, in essence?
The U.S. corporate tax environment is one of the least business-friendly in the world.
Inspectors said the environment in the hospital was "not dementia-friendly" and that the dignity of patients was not always appropriately maintained.
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Still, is that discrepancy causally connected to right-to-work laws or to other employment-friendly attributes lower corporate taxes or a less stringent regulatory environment in the right-to-work state?
Far-reaching economic reforms are creating a friendly environment for investors.
These moguls have made significant commitments to the environment, whether through investment in technology, commitment to earth-friendly living or simply by raising the world's environmental awareness.
According to a recent report from the McKinsey Quarterly, Method, a maker of household cleaning products that is widely praised for its environmentally-friendly practices, refuses to compromise for the environment when it comes to the aesthetics of its products.
The "New Frontier" rooms are stocked with kid-friendly interactive multimedia games that teach about conservation, the environment and life in the modern city.
So everything about the environment was, as we say now but didn't say then, child-friendly.
Bill Ford insists his commitment to the environment hasn't wavered, and he offers as evidence his pet project, an eco-friendly manufacturing plant opening next year in Dearborn.
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