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L.A. City Council votes for ban on plastic shopping bags
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to ban plastic carryout bags in the city's supermarkets and stores by July 2010 -- but only if the state fails to impose a 25-cent fee on every shopper who requests them. Council members said they hope an...Tags: Richard Alarcon, Venice, Ed Reyes, Environmental Cleanup, Pactiv Corporation
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Spreading the word, through pamphlets
I had an epiphany the first time I visited the Free Tract Society, in a large storefront on York Boulevard in Los Angeles' Highland Park. Two 20-foot-long tables were weighed down with neatly stacked piles of fliers blaring lurid headlines that dealt with...Tags: Bible, Book, Mel Gibson, Highland Park (Los Angeles, California), Religious Texts
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States, cities crack down on thefts of recyclables
The Associated PressEvery Wednesday night, Bruce Johnson dutifully puts his garbage and recycling on the curb for pickup, and every week he fumes as small trucks idle in front of his home and strangers dig through his bins stealing trash they aim to turn into treasure....Tags: Government, Vehicles, Robert Reed, Punishment, Homelessness
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Sharp Corp. bought out
Of The Morning CallA pharmaceutical packaging company in Upper Macungie Township is falling under foreign ownership. United Drug of Ireland is paying $99 million for Sharp Corp., which employs about 300 people in Upper Macungie and another 300 in Conshohocken, Montgomery...Tags: Values, Anheuser-Busch, Sharp Corp, Health Treatments, Macungie
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Sharp Corporation in Upper Macungie sold
United Drug, an international provider of services to healthcare manufacturers and pharmaceutical retailers based in Ireland, announced today that it will buy Sharp Corporation, a pharmaceutical packaging company in Upper Macungie Township, for $99...Tags: Sharp Corp, Corporations, Allentown
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Mill's closing sinks town's economy
Associated PressFirst, it was the orders coming into Wausau Paper that dried up. Then it was the jobs. Now, the stream of snowmobilers and ATV riders who stock up at Emerson Outdoor Outfitters en route to New Hampshire's North Woods is slowing, a victim of high fuel...Tags: National League, Employees, Labor Disputes, Layoffs and Downsizing, Local Authority
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The New Paper
It's been a hellish week for employees of The Courant, especially those of us who camp in the news department. It's nothing new — shrinking revenue, shrinking staff, shrinking number of newspaper pages devoted to the journalism we hold dear. But...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Examinations, Mass Media, Newspaper and Magazine, Teaching and Learning
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Easy Trail To Enjoy
Laurel Marsh in Manchester once used to be Laurel Lake. A dam held back the waters of the Hockanum River and helped power a paper mill. The paper mill failed, the dam was breached, and Mother Nature turned the lake into a marsh. Eventually the Hockanum...Tags: Fishing, Natural Resources, Wetlands
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Book drives sales job change
Special to the TribuneIn Tim Clarke's Naperville childhood home, "self-help and sales-management books were always around," he said. "My dad, Stone Container's sales vice president, thought they contained many valuable ideas." By late 1995, Clarke, a marketing manager at a...Tags: Employees, Work Relations, Sales
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Deadly paper mill blast investigated in Mississippi
Associated PressJACKSON, Miss. — Investigators hoping to determine the cause of a deadly explosion at a paper mill must wait to make sure that a boiler being restarted when the blast occurred is safe, the company said Sunday. At least 400 International Paper Co....Tags: Emergency Incidents, Employees, Employers, International Paper Company, Health and Safety at Work
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