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The article reports on the effect of the poor economy on the paper industry. Paul Raymond, president of Ashland Hercules Water Technologies (AHWT), a business unit of Ashland, says paper mill closures and production losses in the mature regions are a challenge. According to the article, many suppliers have restructured, reducing output and/or otherwise streamlined operations. BASF announced a reorganization of its performance products business segment in anticipation of completing the Ciba deal.

The article focuses on the rising costs of paper. Magazine publishers are dealing with numerous rising costs, including technology investments, postage, editors, and paper. Due to the weakness of the American dollar, publishers' overseas options are increasingly being restricted. In 2007, paper is emerging from an era of rising and falling prices. Coupled with structural changes, including mergers and a growing role for private equity, prices will continue to increase into 2008.

Reports on the demand for chlorine and other bleaching chemicals by the pulp and paper industry in the United States. Information on the Environmental Protection Agency's rule which sets air and water standards for pulp and paper mills stimulating demand for products that replace chlorine; Factors that prompted papermakers to switch to other bleaching agents; Analysts' prediction on hydrogen peroxide demand in 2000.

The article shares a readers' insight on the difference that the ten commitments in the chief nursing officer for England's Leading Change, Adding Value framework could make to nursing care. One respondent suggests the framework's potential to shape policies and ensure workforce training. A second respondent points out the lack of funding to help carry out the ten commitments, while another stresses the need to address poor staffing levels.

As the government prepares to spend £4 billion on a drive for a paperless NHS, nurses might well ask: what does it mean for me? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines marketing by manufacturers of household consumer products such as tissues and cleansers. The recession has led to an increase of sales of house brand products in these categories. Makers of brand name products such as Kimberley-Clark and Procter & Gamble have responded by altering pricing strategies.

The article reports that industrial accelerometers manufacturer Hansford Sensors released a free white paper that provides advice for cement manufacturers on using vibration monitoring to improve the efficiency of production machinery.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to the article "Recycled Fiber a Buried Treasure for Marcal," published in the September 6, 2010 issue, and "Boomers--Yes, Boomers--Spend the Most on Tech," published in the October 11, 2010 issue.

Forecasts on the trend in paper fillers segment for 1998. Demand for titanium dioxide as reported by Bruce Zwicker of Millennium Inorganic Chemicals; Sales growth in precipitated calcium carbonate; Kaolin as the predominant ground-wood filler used in newspaper and magazines.

The article examines the economic conditions of the print manufacturing industry in Hong Kong, China. It looks at how wage increases have impacted the labor market and productivity as well as how advances in digital printing have improved the industry. Noted companies covered in the article include Hung Hing, Leo Paper Group, and Magnum Offset.

The article explores the leaked White Paper on Australia's defence budget model for 2013. On page eight of the White Paper, it stated that the defence budget model is realistic and appropriate for the uncertain fiscal circumstances of the country, but is still able to deliver the government's priorities. The author says the omission of SEA 1180, which aims to build 20 new multi-role naval vessels, is one interesting section of the White Paper.

Discusses the effect of newspaper recession in 1990 and 1991 on newspaper companies in the United States. Slow growth in net operating income suffered by large companies; Reason behind the inverse proportionality between size and profit; Higher returns on sale experienced by diversified companies.

Presents information on the problems plaguing the newspaper publishers in the United Kingdom as a result of quality values. Effect of rise in the cost of newsprint on publishing companies; Squeeze in the profit margins by newsprint costs and reduced revenue; Indications from companies to return to the chasing of market share; Information on companies affected and actions taken.

Looks at the economic aspects of newspaper publishing in the United States. Newsprint supplier Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. to raise the price of standard newsprint in October 1999; Price dependent on the recuperation of East Asian markets; Abitibi move part of strategy to take high-cost capacity out of the system.

In this article, the author discusses a paper which revisited the paradox of thrift, an idea that was popularized by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s. The paper "Engineering a Paradox of Thrift Recession," authored by Minneapolis Fed economists Zhen Huo and José-Victor Rios-Rull and published in Minneapolis Fed Staff Report 478 online at minneapolisfed.org, is referenced. The article also discusses the economic model that was examined by two researchers.

The article discusses the efforts of three entities, the Windham Solid Waste Management District (WSWMD) of Vermont, the Martin's Farm composting site in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and the commercial waste hauler Triple T Trucking, to simultaneously lower costs and increase the efficiencies of commercial organic recycling. Topics include diverting nonrecyclable paper and cardboard to composting, food waste composting, and dual stream materials recovery. Also discussed is old corrugated cardboard (OCC) recovery. INSETS: VERMONT'S SOLID WASTE VISION;SUBSIDIZED ORGANICS COLLECTION.

The article discusses how a desire to contribute to the green movement by supporting environmentally friendly compact disc (CD) packaging at record labels has been hampered by a weak economy. Major record labels say progress on offering more sustainable packaging has remained flat due to financial concerns. Problems related to making eco-friendly CD packages compatible with automated distribution systems and machinery designed for plastic jewel cases are discussed.

The article reports on the advertisement spending of consumer magazines. According to the author, advertisers will be negatively affected by the automotive industry and positively by the pharmaceutical industry. Marketing research companies Zenith Optimedia Group, Veronis Suhler Stevenson LLC, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP all project different advertising growth rates. While the publishers have been affected by the failures of several titles, the internet is expected to increase purchases.

Reports on the awarding of a Legal Defense Fund grant to the `Independent Florida Alligator' student newspaper by the Society of Professional Journalists to aid its attempts to overturn a Florida law passed on March 29, 2001 in response to the death of race car driver Dale Earnhardt. Overview of the Florida law; Challenge to the constitutionality of the law.

Deals with the continuing fall of newspaper readership in the United States in 1999. Advertising revenue of the newspaper industry in 1998; Result of the Competitive Media Index; Details on the industry's marketing initiatives; Function on the Newspaper Readership Project at Northwestern University's Newspaper Management Center.

The one task a new government can take up is to inform all political actors and adversaries about the economic catastrophe which Pakistanis are about to face, and to make them work towards a shared consensus on economic direction. The widening fiscal gap jacked up interest rates on local government papers above the 13pc psychological barrier understandably when perhaps for the first time the government of Pakistan is doling out a significant amount of public money to large populations to run their cars and buses at cheaper petrol and diesel rates. The economic crisis is so deep that drastic measures will be made, which will result in further inflation, much higher petrol and electricity rates, a dollar closer to Rs200, and a higher interest rate. [Extracted from the article]

Reports that the periodical, `Afro-American-Planet,' has closed due to rising newsprint costs and lack of advertising. Number of employees; Competitor; History.

Reports that the Detroit Newspapers company in Michigan has agreed to accept donations from the Detroit joint-operating agency for police expenses related to the newspaper strike. Figures on donation.

Reports on worsening revenues of Japanese newspapers. Recession in 1993; Closure of small newspapers; Stagnant circulation; Declining advertising and profits; Report from the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association; Cost cutting.

Reports that the Coalition of Minority-Owned Publications will ask the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether African-American and Hispanic newspapers are getting a fair share of advertising from the federal government. Groups which make up the Coalition; Government spending on advertising to increase; Coalition targeting advertising agencies; Agencies handling government contracts.

States that ad agencies are getting blunt about telling the TV networks that advertisers' sports budgets aren't bottomless. Leo Burnett USA's concern that increasing broadcast rights fees for sporting events have pushed ad rates as far as they can go; Comment by Dick Hobbs, exec VP at Leo Burnett; Other comments.

Information about several papers discussed at the 10th annual forum of the Gulf Petrochemical and Chemical Association (GPCA) held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) in November 2015 is presented. Topics include the challenges encountered by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), outlook for the worldwide petrochemicals sector, and effects of low oil price to the oil and gas companies. The forum featured several speakers including Yousef Al Benyan, Nizar Al Adsani, and Rashed Sau Al Shamsi.

Presents a summary of six papers presented at a conference on "Interest Rates and Monetary Policy" held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on March 19 and 20, 2004. Term of the structure of interest rates and how it interacts with macroeconomic fundamentals; Model estimation on high-volatility regime that tends to be associated with economic downturns; Use of the dynamic New Keynesian model for constructing and evaluating monetary policy rules.

Reports that a National Aeronautics and Space Administration concept for public/private funding of a commercially operated reusable launch vehicle would require phasing out the space shuttle and some expendable boosters. Ivan Bekey's presentation of the paper; Space mission costs; Hindrances to Bekey's proposal.

The article focuses on discussion papers published before the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) which revealed that nursing associates could pay the same fee as nurses and midwives to join the NMC register. Topics discussed include amount that nursing associates could pay a year to register, two options set out by papers published before an NMC council meeting on November 29, 2017, and remarks from Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Deputy Director of Nursing Stephanie Aiken.

A white paper from "Billboard" magazine's 2012 FutureSound Conference is presented on the economic aspects of digital music sales and music marketing on the Internet. Advice for musicians to find new fans is presented, such as completing a band profile on the social media website Facebook, creating a band website, and offering free information to encourage interest. Conference attendants such as Tim Quirk from Google Music and Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures are quoted. INSETS: Discovery Channel;Friending The Band.

Summarizes papers presented at the 'Finance and Microeconomics' conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on February 28 and March 1, 2003, under the joint sponsorship of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Dynamics of corporate earnings; Stock market reactions to Federal Reserve policy; Analysis of the yield curve and gross domestic product growth; Exchange rates and fundamentals.

Summarizes the papers presented at the economic conference 'Nominal Rigidities' held in San Francisco, California. Construction of models concerning the effects of change in monetary policy on economy; Proposition regarding the conduction of monetary policy under Friedman rule; Flexibility of prices results highly volatile inflation rates.

Presents a summary on the paper presented at the 'Asset Prices, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy' conference held at Stanford University in California. Steps in understanding the guidelines of the Central Bank on asset prices; Analysis on the forecasting ability of asset prices for inflation and output; Use of asset prices for policymakers.

Reports on some of United States newspapers' major areas of cost or capital investment as discussed by executives heading into New Orleans for the trade show Nexpo 2001. Importance assigned to software, whether in prepress, the pressroom or packaging and distribution; Printing and packaging; Concern over costs of paper and power.

Reports Columbia University Press' creation of Columbia International Affairs Online. Publication of journal articles and electronic monographs, conference proceedings, working papers from 40 institutions and books in full text; Use of the technology to help solve the crisis in scholarly publishing; Comments from editor Kate Wittenberg.

An examination of what will likely happen to the "Wall Street Journal" newspaper now that media mogul Rupert Murdoch has purchased the publication. The author suggests that Murdock will likely bring editor Robert Thompson to the paper, in some form, in an attempt to grow the publication's circulation and increase advertising. The author also examines potential advertising ploys that Murdoch may employ and his desire to turn the paper's online publication into an open-access free web site.

Presents newspaper publishing-related news items in the United States, compiled in the week of July 2, 1999. Newspaper advertising for Procter & Gamble Co.'s Bounty paper towels; Web-based products introduced by Graphic Enterprises Inc.; Decline of newsprint consumption.

The article reports on the paper, written by international cohort of doctors, published in "The Lancet Infectious Diseases" journal which is calling for better training for front line staff to reduce the number of deaths from sepsis in Great Britain. The paper is calling for campaigns to improve awareness and clinicians to ensure early diagnosis. The insights of professor Jonathan Cohen, one of the authors of the paper, are also included.

The article discusses the economic benefits of the industrial robots with the ability to work safely alongside humans in the assembly line of the packaging industry. It states that the industry can benefit from the robots' ability to perform productive packaging process. It also notes that the industrial robots can handle tasks without the operator.

The article discusses the plans of the monthly newspaper ``New Brunswick Today" regarding the increase in the subscription of their newspapers. Particular focus is given to the promotional campaign of the paper with the American television show ``Full Frontal with Samantha Bee", the increase in the subscription rates, and provides details of the history of the newspaper

The article presents views of chief procurement officer of the computer and network security company Palo Alto for the company's initiative to reduce usage of papers for providing procurement services. Particular focus is given to the benefits of the company's initiative to the government including accountability, savings, and increased efficiencies in the services. Establishment of electronic systems, cloud-based services, and use of software application program interfaces.

The article examines the profitability of traditional print newspapers in 2013, discussing speculation that billionaire Michael Bloomberg might buy the "Financial Times" newspaper, why the paper's owner, Pearson, might not sell the paper, and a special section on newspaper profitability.

An introduction to the white paper is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the integration of social networking into the business operation, productivity improvement by fostering employee-to-employee relationships as part of everyday business, and ways to listen to the voice of customers.

The article considers U.S. infant care. Marketing research is cited indicating that sales of ointments for diaper rash have increased from 2009-2011 despite a decline in births in that period, while at the same time, sales of disposable diapers have declined. It is posited that weak economic conditions may lead to parents changing infants' diapers less frequently to save money. This is considered a cause of diaper rash.

The article examines public relations damage control by Procter & Gamble Co. over a controversy involving its Pampers brand disposable diapers. Parents on Internet forums had complained a new version of the diaper created diaper rash on infants. The monitoring by company employees of so-called "social media" such as blogs and online social networks for comments on Procter & Gamble products is discussed.

The article examines how Internet users have hampered the product launch by Procter & Gamble of an improved line of Pampers brand disposable diapers, the company's largest selling brand name product. Despite positive reviews from other users, a small group of critics have dominated comments on Web sites devoted to infant care and diapers. This is said to indicate the difficulty of product management in the Internet era. INSETS: Making the case for Dry Max;Lessons learned.

The article discusses the "Slutsky decomposition" proposed by Eugen Slutsky. Slutsky sought to explain how price changes affect consumer demand, and how such in turn affects the overall economy. His paper, "On the Theory of the Budget of the Consumer," was written in 1915, and was reportedly the first to bring a mathematical perspective to the issue. He pointed out how a change in price will affect the consumer's ability to purchase either more or less of it, or allow them the ability to buy other items. This in turn affects their overall spending power.