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10-07-08
UPS Joins EPA's "Climate Leaders" Program
ATLANTA,GA. - October 7, 2008 "“ As part of its continued commitment to sustainable business practices, UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced its participation in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program.
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10-07-08
IFC and ILO to Improve Labor Standards and Competitiveness in Vietnam’s Apparel Industry
HANOI,VIETNAM. - October 7, 2008 "“ IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the International Labour Organization today launched the Better Work Vietnam program to improve working conditions for more than 700,000 workers in the Vietnamese apparel industry and boost...
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10-07-08
HCCA to Hold Important Review of the Just Released OIG 2009 Work Plan
MINNEAPOLIS, MN. - October 7, 2008 - The Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) announced today it will hold a two-part audio/web conference to review the recently released U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s 2009 Work Plan. E...
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10-07-08
AT&T Awards $700,000 in Grants to Help Address High School Dropout Crisis in Sacramento Area
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) today announced it is awarding more than $700,000 in AT&T Foundation grants to six Sacramento-area educational institutions to support high school retention programs for at-risk students.
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10-07-08
The Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative Begins Work on New Compounds to Fill Early-Stage TB Drug Pipeline
SEATTLE, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative today announced its first acquisition of compounds for further development into tuberculosis (TB) drug candidates. Agreements were reached with Summit plc (LSE: SUMM) of Oxfordshire, UK, and the...
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10-07-08
Newmont Selected To Join The Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index
DENVER,CO. - October 7, 2008 - Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE:NEM) today announced that the Carbon Disclosure Project (www.cdproject.net), representing 385 institutional investors with $57 trillion in assets und...
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10-07-08
iGPS Forms Partnership with the National Forest Foundation to Plant Trees and Help Restore Our Nation's Forests
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company LLC), operator of the world's first all-plastic pallet pool with embedded RFID tags, announced today that it has entered into a partnership with the National Forest Foundation (NFF), the c...
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10-07-08
Transparency International and Enablon Join Forces to Help Companies Combat Bribery
BERLIN AND PARIS. - October 7th 2008 - Transparency International (TI), the global anti-corruption coalition and Enablon, the leading provider of corporate responsibility management software, today announced the European launch of Enablon's Anti-Bribery System (ABS), ...
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10-07-08
Keep America Beautiful Partners with Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing's Little Green Books
STAMFORD,CT. - October 7, 2008 - Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB) is proud to announce its partnership with leading publisher Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing to promote Little Green Books, a new eco-friendly line of children's novelty and storybooks aimed...
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10-07-08
Human Rights Impact Assessment Contractors Selected and Website Established
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. - October 7, 2008 - The Steering Committee for the human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of Goldcorp Inc.'s operations in Guatemala announced today the selection of On Common Ground Consultants to conduct the Assessment and International Alert to...
