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...Bottle Bill requires that minimum deposits of five and 10 cents, to be refunded to the consumer, be placed on all non-biodegradable containers of soft drinks, mineral water, and beer. Consumers would retrieve their deposits when they return the empty bottles. Storeowners would be entitled to a handling fee of at least one cent per container. The law would also provide extra unemployment benefits and, subject to legislative appropriation, job retraining for workers losing their jobs as a result...
...dealer or redemption center, so long as the container does not contain any material different from its normal contens Dealers and distributors are also subject to the same deposit and refund on the beverage containers they handle, and are also entitled to a handling fee of at least one cent per container...
...fact." McCarthy admits. "Two or three alarms have gone off by the time the arson squad gets there." In such cases most of any evidence of arson is burned, and very few arrests can be made--only 10 all this summer. For a crime with a roughly two per cent conviction rate, that's not much of a record...
...proposal was apparently killed because of opposition to the finance provisions--a four cent increase in the state's already high cigarette tax. James True of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts said yesterday that an amendment will now be proposed calling for funding to come out of current cigarette tax revenues. He predicted that the change would lead to swift passage...
...once seemed a sci-fi folly is now, by Hannah's reckoning, a plausible venture. He and his 56 fellow investors in SSI, nearly all oil-industry friends, have already run through $6 million, and must raise at least another $15 million before their venture can earn a cent. The business plan: putting telecommunications and earth-scanning satellites into orbit, at about $5 million a shot, for companies that want a rocket all to themselves or do not want to wait for cheaper space on NASA'S booked-up space shuttle. Hannah says a dozen energy companies...