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City aims to sort out recycling - Durango HeraldDurango’s recycling officials are asking residents to do a better job of sorting their waste and paying attention to what is recyclable. City workers have a full-time job of sorting materials and picking out trash from recyclables, said Nancy Andrews
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Answering some not-so-stupid questions - Seattle TimesWhen it comes to investments, there are no stupid questions, just reasonable queries about bad ideas. Today, Stupid Investment of the Week looks at some questions generated by recent columns, creating a chance to rubberneck at the car wreck of bad
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JC Penney Sex-Ad Rebel: Mike Long, Right? - GawkerPeople still profess confusion about which ad man had his way with JC Penney ’s image, making an unauthorized teen sex ad and submitting it to the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Neither the pissed-off retailer nor its apologetic ad
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Need for Copywriting Jobs Increase for 2008; Where Are the Copywriters - PR.comIn BtoB’s “2008 Marketing Priorities and Plans” recent survey, they found that 60% of B2B marketers plan to increase their marketing budgets next year. Where are the Copywriters? Broomfield, CO, January 31, 2008 –( PR.com )– With an increase in [...]

Hugh Muir - Guardian Unlimited· So it has been a year. Time for a rethink. Time for Gordon to get a grip. He can start, perhaps, with staffing. Beth Russell, his speechwriter, has now fled back to the Treasury, we see, and his hankerings for the Blairite wordsmiths David
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The hits and misses of Microsoft - BBC NewsIn early 2004, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Mr Gates predicted that within two years the problem of spam - junk e-mail - would be solved. A triumvirate of technical innovations, financial measures and filters would make
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