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The article reports on the uniform and simplified standard of measures for paper set out by the U.S. War Production Board (WPB). Supporters of the plan propose pulp content reduction at 5% in the annual paper tonnage. The proposed standard calls for 1,000 sheets of 25x40 inch in size. However, it points out that the sizes of sheets or rolls of paper ordered from a mill or dealer will not be changed.

The article informs that a report published in the "Reno Gazette Journal" analyzes ways by which dual stream paper recycling will bring additional revenue and environmental benefits to Nevada. It is noted that mandating a dual stream paper and cardboard recycling process for all state and local institutions in Nevada is likely to provide a framework to transform costly recycling challenges into a revenue stream for state and local governments.

Focuses on the Bill Clinton administration's regulations regarding purchase of paper made without chlorine bleach. Promotion for the use of `environmentally preferable' paper; Reduction of requirement for `post-consumer waste' in recycled paper; Compliance with federal paper-use rules; Strong opposition from the paper industry.

The article reveals that the U.S. Council on Wage & Price Stability (COWPS) has told management and labor negotiators in a West Coast paper strike that only settlements or offers made in writing before October 24, 1978 will be exempt from the Carter Administration's wage guidelines. It reports that the announcement drew the ire of members of the Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers, an independent union representing striking workers in 31 West Coast paper plants.

Since the UK voted to leave the EU, environmentalists have worried that the government will use its new-found freedoms to lower environmental standards. Philip Allin, director at Boyer, where he leads on the planning consultancy's environmental assessment work, says that the desire to streamline the process is laudable, but points out that the same ambition didn't quite work out when the government brought in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). [Extracted from the article]

Reports on forest products and packaging as part of the Annual Report on American Industry. Merger; Conservation; Paper and lumber; Packaging. INSET: Paper's tiger (discusses International Paper and chairman John....

Reports on that industry is given few incentives to carry out research and development (R&D) by the government's White Paper on competitiveness launched in May 1994 by President of the Board of Tarde Michael Haseltine. Plan to target funding on the White' Paper's network of one-stop shops which give companies information about industrial and academic R&D in their regions as well as nationally.

Although modern urban recycling programs have successfully created a tremendous supply of recycled newspapers, glass bottles, and office paper, when it comes to consumer and business demand for products made from these materials, the economics of recycling falls apart. As David Biddle notes, the present cost of collecting and processing recyclable materials far outweighs their value as a commodity that can be sold back to industry. Yet precisely because of this market uncertainty, companies can seize the competitive high ground. Farsighted players have already found profitable openings. There's clearly consumer demand for green products, and Rubbermaid, Moore Business Forms, International Paper, and others have dramatically increased market share with appropriate offerings. In addition, top managers of companies like Bell Atlantic and Coca-Cola have made buying recycled products and investing in green R&D part of their business strategies. Through such efforts, business leaders help to challenge current recycling myths, including the supposed high price and low quality of recycled products. While public policymakers are still trying to assess what's wrong with recycling programs, corporations are in the best position to take the lead. More important, given the potential profits to be made and the tighter government regulations that are sure to come, it's in their economic self-interest to do so. The Buy Recycled Business Alliance, which includes Bank of America, America Airlines, and Anheuser-Busch on its steering committee, indicates how profits and social responsibility may come together in the 1990s. INSET: The High Cost of Processing What's Put Out on the Curb. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the author's views on cashless economy. The topics include the Indian government's demonetization policy and its impact on the people and the economy, claims of reducing crime and tax evasion and views of economist Kenneth S. Rogoff on demonetization in his book "The Curse of Cash." The author believes that argument for cash is a case for due process and financial privacy.

The article reports that the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth District, San Francisco, California ordered members of the Pacific States Paper Trade Association to show cause on October 13, 1936 on why they are not liable for disobeying the 1927 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order prohibiting price-fixing.

The article reports that the U.S. pulp and paper industry has been ordered by the Office of Production Management (OPM) to reduce the use of chlorine in its manufacturing processes. Chlorine is used in the manufacture of defense products such as waterproofing paraffins, armaments, airplane engine coolants, nonfreezing dynamites and chemical warfare items. Pulp and paper production levels and the adoption of methods by Ethyl Gasoline Corp. to produce tetraethyl lead are discussed.

The authors discuss the U.S. government's decision to impose tariffs on coated-paper imports from China. They argue that the tariffs benefit U.S. private equity investors. The paper manufacturers that brought the complaint is owned by a large U.S. private equity group. They say the government action raises obvious questions about the political influence of private investment firms.

The article looks at the paper conservation program in public offices in Michigan as of June 2, 1951. The program was conducted by the state government and was backed by the Kellogg Foundation, wherein it cut 149,000 U.S. dollars in costs. The program consisted of two projects, the paper-work control and record-keeping control, wherein the former 35 forms were integrated into 16 new forms and the latter project that managed 75 form records saved 70,000 U.S. dollars.

Deals with the attempts of the US President Bill Clinton's administration to facilitate the transition to totally chlorine-free (TCF) paper. Goals of an executive order requiring federal government to purchase TCF paper to satisfy a portion of its paper needs; Details of the `Cluster Rule ' of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Proposals of the EPA to reduce dioxin pollution. INSETS: Breaking it down from wood to paper;The big deal recycling executive order.

Discusses plans by the Clinton administration to make the American wood and paper industry leaner and more environment friendly. Types of research included in proposed program; Need to reduce industry costs; Doubts concerning whether the Republicans will consent to spend money on a Democratic program.

The article looks at developments in the Canadian newspaper publishing industry as of January 1, 1930. Topics addressed include the overproduction in newspaper industry and its impact on paper companies whose performance is described by the author as facing "financial disaster." The performance of U.S. paper companies in Canada and the Canadian price fixing policy are also investigated.

The article reports on the reduction in the circulation of paper in the U.S.

Looks at measures being taken by the US Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) to prevent counterfeiting of American paper money. The redesigned $100 bill; Technological innovations which are making it more difficult to tell a forged bill from a genuine one, including high-quality color copiers. INSETS: Getting less than you paid for, by D. Christensen;The new currency sports several security-enhancing features.

The article discusses the position papers on vaccines and vaccine combinations against diseases published by the World Health Organization (WHO). The regularly updated position papers summarize essential background information on the respective diseases and vaccines and conclude with the current WHO position concerning their use in the global context. The papers are designed for use mainly by national public health officials and immunization programme managers.

The article discusses the enforcement of a new regulation proposed during the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in 2017 which emphasizes on the shipment of rosewoods, a prime tonewood for guitars. The regulation requires businesses to submit highly specific documentation of the international shipments of musical instruments that contain any kind of rosewood.

Focuses on the environmental benefits to be derived from the production of recycled paper compared to the manufacture of paper products from virgin wood fiber. Toxic substances generated by recycled paper mills; Pulp and paper industry as one of the dirtiest industries in the country; Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory results between 1987-1992.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security deemed waste collection an essential service, but they needed more information as to why recycling should be included. "If you take that box out of the supply chain and you don't consider a corrugated box company essential and then a recycling company essential, which is in the same supply chain, it will disrupt the supply chain and keep some of these materials from getting" to where they need to go. [Extracted from the article]

Over 13 months in 2016-17 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission conducted an "incentive auction" to repurpose radio spectrum from broadcast television to wireless internet. In the end, the auction yielded $19.8 bn, $10.05 bn of which was paid to 175 broadcasters for voluntarily relinquishing their licenses across 14 Ultra High Frequency (UHF) channels. Stations that continued broadcasting were assigned potentially new channels to fit as densely as possible into the channels that remained. The government netted more than $7 bn (used to pay down the national debt) after covering costs (including retuning). A crucial element of the auction design was the construction of a solver, dubbed SAT-based Feasibility Checker (SATFC), that determined whether sets of stations could be "repacked" in this way; it needed to run every time a station was given a price quote. This paper describes the process by which we built SATFC. We adopted an approach we dub "deep optimization," taking a data-driven, highly parametric, and computationally intensive approach to solver design. More specifically, to build SATFC we designed software that could pair both complete and local-search SAT-encoded feasibility checking with a wide range of domain-specific techniques, such as constraint graph decomposition and novel caching mechanisms that allow for reuse of partial solutions from related, solved problems. We then used automatic algorithm configuration techniques to construct a portfolio of 8 complementary algorithms to be run in parallel, aiming to achieve good performance on instances that arose in proprietary auction simulations. To evaluate the impact of our solver in this paper, we built an open-source reverse auction simulator. We found that within the short time budget required in practice, SATFC solved more than 95% of the problems it encountered. Furthermore, the incentive auction paired with SATFC produced nearly optimal allocations in a restricted setting and substantially outperformed other alternatives at national scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers the author's insights on a recycling policy by the Chinese government called National Sword. Topics include the problem of foreign garbage sent to China disguised as recyclables, documentary film "Plastic China," and the shutting down of a recycled paperboard mill by Graphics Paper in Santa Clara, California.

The article focuses on the implications of the decision of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board to lift Regulation Q which limits the interest commercial banks can pay in 1970. The agency has proposed a regulation that would oblige banks to hold 10 percent of the money they raise in the commercial paper market in reserve. The Federal Reserve has kept the old Q ceilings ranging from 4 percent on passbook savings to 5 percent on small-denomination time deposits intact all through 1969.

During the month of November, there were a number of recycling events, a new recycling goal from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as new EPA solid waste data. In light of that, it is perhaps unsurprising that the national recycling rate (including composting) dropped to 32% from 35% in 2017, a level around which the recycling rate has been hovering for more than a decade. Dubbed 50 by 30, the national goal calls for a recycling rate of 50% by 2030, and Summit participants noted and praised the focus on recycling within the EPA and the importance of a new national recycling goal to galvanize action. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the growing confusion of motorists on the abolition of the paper driver's license moving the procedures online starting June 8, 2015 by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Great Britain.

The article discusses virtual currency in relation to the Swedish government's efforts to move the nation towards a cashless society as of 2016, and it mentions the potential replacement of paper currency with electronic money transactions. The attitudes of Swedes are addressed, along with the author's personal views about life changes and the abolition of paper money. Signatures are examined, along with incorporeal (intangible) money and self-protection.

Discusses the redesigned United States $100 bill, in light of the esthetics of paper-money design. Redesign due to security considerations; View that the redesigned Franklin bill is remarkably ugly; History of efforts in the United States to foil counterfeiters, while also producing beautiful bills and financial certificates; The role of engravers.

Looks at the efforts of New York officials to remove illegal billboards, focusing on the removal of a billboard erected by Hanes Corporation. Details on the conflict between Hanes and Kmart.

It is almost a year since the release of the government's Levelling Up White Paper, and with the less-than complimentary reaction to the recent second round of the Levelling Up Fund, now seems a good time to consider whether the government is actually succeeding with its big agenda. Then in February 2022, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) described the publication of its white paper as "firing the starting gun" on a decade-long project to economically even out the UK. Labour's vision would see the government's 12 white paper missions axed, and the creation of an "independent advisory council" to monitor progress, and funds devolved locally. [Extracted from the article]

The author writes about the importance of effectively communicating the broad and impactful aspects of computer science, moving beyond technical jargon to engage both educated non-experts and the general public. This involves creating concise "elevator speeches" and utilizing opportunities to bridge the gap in understanding terms like "artificial intelligence" (AI) and "machine learning." He feels that public engagement, such as interacting with journalists, giving interviews, and writing opinion articles, is crucial to demonstrate how computer science can address complex societal issues as well as secure support for the field, and that active participation in public engagement enhances the field's visibility, attracts diverse students, and safeguards its future, particularly in addressing concerns about AI ethics and workforce effects.

The article focuses on the compliance and support for emergency eyewash programs. Hazards must be identified vis-a-vis the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and areas where chemicals are stored and used should be prioritized. Emergency eyewash stations must conform to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) guidelines to ensure safety of the employees and avoid penalty for non-compliance. Maintenance should be done regularly to avoid sediments and contaminants.

The article offers information on Democrats' efforts for Impeachment of the U.S. President Donald Trump. Topics discussed include information on Trump's alleged quid pro quo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to have the foreign leader investigate the business dealings of Joe Biden, former vice president of the U.S.; and impeachable action for the American president to accept bribes.

The article focuses on the freedom of individuals to introspect with respect to public policies. It mentions that the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru India conducts short-term and long-term courses, along with research papers and a post-graduate programme in areas of public policy. It also highlights issues concerning the liberal democracy, and views of activist Natan Sharansky on the same.

Following rumours that the Planning Bill has now been scrapped and that the "tidying up" of the planning system will instead be made through levelling-up legislation, the Levelling Up White Paper has taken on far greater significance. But while brownfield sites are important, the strategy of "brownfield first" has failed to tackle the housing crisis; in fact, it has exacerbated it. The Levelling Up White Paper's focus on brownfield prioritisation is not new and has been the policy of successive governments over the past 30 years. [Extracted from the article]