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...Massachusetts Smoke-free Workplace Law, which went into effect in July 2004, made smoking illegal in most indoor public places, including offices, bars, and restaurants...
...negative publicity is having an effect on both companies and individuals. Scott Eckern, artistic director of the California Musical Theatre in Sacramento, whose $1,000 donation was listed on ElectionTrack, chose to resign from his post this week to protect the theater from public criticism. Karger says a "soft boycott" his group had started against Bolthouse Farms - which gave $100,000 to Prop. 8 - was dropped after he reached a settlement with the company. Bolthouse Farms was to give an equal amount of money to gay rights political causes. The amount ultimately equaled...
Translation: the banks were long on oil and probably helped effect high oil prices. But with these banks failing, and prices already declining, they too closed out those long positions and helped bring prices lower. Oil prices may have risen on panic, and fear may have played a role in their recent fall. The mechanism of the fall, however, was a massive liquidation...
...Shamsher S. Samra, a first-year medical student, said that students had been prodding the administration to revamp the Medical School’s conflict of interest policies for roughly six years to little effect...
...Additionally, the handbook now states that pharmaceutical company representatives are not allowed to interact with students on campus, and industry sponsorship of student events is prohibited. Both had been informal policies that had “been in effect for many years” before being officially codified, administrators said...