Joe Boris Local Teamsters leaders cleared the way for members in UPS Inc.'s Freight unit to vote on a new tentative contract that comes seven months after the company's original proposal was rejected by the union by a wide margin. The ...
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Dr. Robert J. Brulle is a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia A new study conducted by Drexel University's environmental sociologist Robert J. Brulle, PhD, exposes the organizational ...
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White children in the United States have higher liver transplant survival rates than blacks and other minority children, a new study finds. Researchers looked at 208 patients, aged 22 and younger, who received a liver transplant at ...
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By Sana Moosa As provider organizations mature toward implementation of accountable care organizations (ACOs), manufacturers of biopharmaceutical products will need to stay abreast of changes, set the stage for innovative partnership, and ...
Just two months after its launch, the Cotton LEADS program continues to gain momentum along the global textile supply chain. Thirty textile companies - suppliers to some of the world's most recognizable apparel brands - have formally ...
According to a new analysis by the Brewers Association (BA)—the not-for-profit trade association that represents the majority of U.S. breweries—small and independent American craft brewers contributed $33.9 billion to the U.S. ...
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A noteworthy tripartite initiative to stimulate technology start-ups by Sri Lankan university students and recent graduates gets underway in January 2014 with corporate sponsorship and participatory inputs from Brandix. Sri Lanka’s ...
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The North American Crop Protection Division of BASF announced today that the company will make an end-of-year donation of $50,000 to hunger relief programs. The donation is split between a $25,000 gift to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern ...
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Aligned with the theme "Growing Together" India seemed to be participating cohesively at the Leela Kempinski, Gurgaon during Indian Cotton Conference 2013 organized by The Northern India Cotton Association Limited (NICAL). The Union ...
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The CO2 EOR market is a well established sector of the oil and gas industry in the United States with the first commercial projects dating back to the early 1970s. The key enabler of this success has been the availability of a large volume ...
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Carbon emission trading will soon start in Shanghai, the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the city's economic planning body, announced on Tuesday. The announcement said the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange ...
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As a founding member of The Automotive Glass Professionals, National Windscreens is delighted to announce that the organisation has been re-branded as Automotive Glass Europe to reflect its growing membership and the reach of its service ...
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Europe's energy intensive industries are probably divided on the merits of power savings targets for 2030, but if the right mix of unambiguous and universal targets and measures can be agreed – and explained – opposition could ...
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The National Energy Administration announced new guidelines for shale gas on Wednesday that aim to increase output of the fuel and thus improve China's energy security. The NEA's guidelines encourage local governments to subsidize shale ...
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Cary, N.C.-based Cotton Incorporated; the Memphis, Tenn.-based National Cotton Council of America and its export promotion program Cotton Council International; and Cotton Australia have come together to establish Cotton LEADS? — a ...