NextEra, with 95% of its portfolio in clean or renewable fuels, noted that the mark-to-market effects of certain hedges, the net effect of other than temporary impairments (OTTI), and certain asset sales had a substantially negative effect on its earnings.

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The rules made sales of certain cuts of beef illegal and had a devastating effect on the UK's agricultural industry.

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Both GM and Chrysler faced the stark choice of seeking government support or facing almost certain uncontrolled liquidations, which would have had a ripple effect across the industry, causing at least one million more jobs to be lost.

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This electric effect had previously been detected only in crystalline materials that possessed a certain symmetry.

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