NEW YORK, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- YOU ARE HERE: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet (October 2008; HarperOne) by Thomas M. Kostigen reveals the vital missing link in today's environmental crisis: how we as individuals are connected to the planet...
Raw Material Prices, Raw Material Prices, Raw Material Prices That was the key point on nearly every nonwoven producer's mind in this year's Top Company report. How to reduce them, how to pass them on to their customers, how they will trend going forward. With oil prices hitting all-time...
MADRID AFP — Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon insisted Saturday that Brazilian winger Robinho would be staying with the Spanish side, despite the player saying he is still in talks with English club Chelsea. "He's going to stay here, I'm saying that," Calderon told the daily ABC, adding that...
LONDON AFP — Chelsea skipper John Terry has hailed new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari as the man to emulate former boss Jose Mourinho at the Premier League club. The Brazilian replaces Avram Grant who was sacked after the team missed out on the Premier League and Champions League titles...
HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX No repeat of last year's controversy as championship leader gives another display of authority. By David Tremayne in Budapest The paddock in Hungaroring, said Lewis Hamilton this weekend, seems a much bigger place than it did 12 months ago. Back then he had just...
Net Sales Increase 8% and Profitability Improves Significantly Revlon Brand New Products Drive Increase in June ACNielsen U.S. Mass Retail Share to 14% NEW YORK -- Revlon, Inc. (NYSE: REV) today announced results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2008. Second quarter 2008 financial results, compared...
NEW YORK -- Revlon, Inc. (NYSE: REV) (the "Company") today announced the sale of its non-core Bozzano brand, a leading men's hair care and shaving line of products, and certain other non-core brands, which are sold in the Brazilian market. The transaction was effected through the sale of the Company's...
I. INTRODUCTION A number of countries have undergone several rounds of bailouts of subnational government debts in the last decade. The Brazilian government, for instance, assumed the debts of the federated states in 1989, 1993, and 1997. Also in its southern neighbor, Argentina, the line that separates provincial and...
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The Economic, Research & Analytics practice at Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2008 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the Brazilian IPC industry to be held on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. PDT. The 2006 second election victory of Brazilian President...
THE AIR AND Space Power Journal family mourns the loss of Mr. Almerisio "Al" Lopes, longtime editor of Air and Space Power Journal-Portuguese (ASPJ-P), who passed away on 14 January 2008. A native of Brazil, Al later became a US citizen and in 1974 began working as a translator for...
SAO PAULO AFP — Supermodels Naomi Campbell and Gisele Bundchen are scheduled to headline Latin America's foremost fashion event, Sao Paulo Fashion Week, which sashays onto the runway this week. The British and Brazilian beauties are to put celebrity punch into the June 17-23 event, which has been growing...
SAO PAULO AFP — A gang of armed robbers stole two Picasso engravings and two Brazilian paintings from a Sao Paulo museum in a bold daylight heist, officials said. The four works grabbed Thursday from a branch of the Pinacoteca museum in the center of the city were insured...
SAO PAULO AFP — Johan Eliasch, a London-based Swedish tycoon who is in legal hot water with Brazil over logging on land he owns in the Amazon forest, on Wednesday defended his environmental credentials in a statement published by the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper. In the article, Eliasch,...
SAO PAULO AFP — While other countries are hiking prices at the pump, Brazil is going against the trend: maintaining retail prices by cutting fuel taxes. The strategy, meant to offset the record high cost of oil, is also helped by the rise of the Brazilian real against the...
NEUSTIFT, Austria AFP — The most successful footballing nation in history has no place at the European Championships - but one Brazilian is still hoping to triumph on the Old Continent at Euro 2008. Marcos Senna, midfielder with Spanish top flight side Villarreal, was born in Rio de Janeiro...
LONDON AFP — Accusations that the firm Gethal had been illegally logging in the Brazilian rainforest are false and politically motivated, a source close to owner Johan Eliasch told AFP on Saturday. The company has "no intention" of accepting a fine announced by the Brazilian government Friday, and is...
LONDON AFP — Portugal boss Luiz Felipe Scolari on Saturday played down a possible move to Chelsea, insisting the Premier League side have made no contact with him over their managerial vacancy. The Brazilian has been hotly tipped for a move to the Stamford Bridge club since the departure...
SAO PAULO AFP — Dramatic images of an isolated Brazilian tribe believed never to have had contact with the outside world were published by officials Friday to draw attention to threats posed to their way of life. The pictures, released by the Brazilian government's National Indian Foundation FUNAI, showed...
BRASILIA AFP — Brazil's government is taking steps toward laws that would restrict Brazilian companies controlled by foreign capital owning land in the Amazon, the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported Thursday. The state National Institute for Agrarian Reform Incra has been tapped to come up with a series...
LONDON AFP — British-based environmental group Cool Earth said on Tuesday it was "bewildered" by reports that its co-founder was being investigated by Brazilian authorities over comments he made about the Amazon. The O Globo newspaper reported on Monday that Brazilian police and intelligence services were investigating Cool Earth's...
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