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• Casualty Lists Updated for Newspaper Industry

  BNET - 2008-08-12

  The New York Times is one rung of the ladder above getting a junk bond rating and a Moody's analyst says the company may need to reduce its annual dividend (which runs to $132 million annually) in order to avoid junk status. Meanwhile,...

  Tags: David Weir, Human Resources, Los Angeles Times, Management, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Tribune Co., Workforce Management

• Plastic bags banned

  - 2008-08-11

  The Los Angeles City Council has voted to ban plastic carry-out bags in the city's supermarkets and other stores by July 2010 if the state fails to impose a 25 cents fee on every shopper who requests one, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Save the Plastic...

  Tags: Los Angeles Times, Strategy, supermarket

• The Sound of Fashion: LA Fashion Awards to Turn Up the Volume

  - 2007-10-15

  Daisy O'Dell is a rising star music maven long favored by fashion insiders. She has shaped the music for the runway shows of designers Candice Held and Joseph Domingo as musical director for runway show producer James Campbell. She has toured with Gwen Stefani, DJ'd at launch parties for Amy...

  Tags: Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, nominee, Retail, Saturn, Strategy, Wells Fargo & Co.

• Nominees for Supima Denim Designer of the Year

  - 2007-08-27

  The nominees were announced today for the inaugural Supima Denim Designer of the Year Award at the 2007 Los Angeles Fashion Awards presented by Saturn. The LA Fashion Awards nominating committee of more than 40 fashion editors, retailers, designers and industry organizers expert in the west coast marketplace made...

  Tags: financial, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, nominee, Retail, Saturn, Strategy, Wells Fargo & Co.

• Pelosi Statement on One-Year Anniversary of Iraqi Constitution

  - 2006-10-16

  To: National DeskContact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616, both for House Democratic Leader Nancy PelosiWASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the adoption of the Iraqi constitution. She also commented on today's Los Angeles Times story...

  Tags: leader, Leadership, Los Angeles Times, Strategy

• Mandela to Support Diamond Industry.(Nelson Mandela)(steps to counter negative publicity generated by the movie The Blood Diamond)(Brief article)

  - 2006-08-01

  By Rob Bates Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been enlisted to help the diamond industry defend itself against the film The Blood Diamond , a report says-but his appointment has kicked up an unexpected controversy. A Los...

  Tags: diamond, Leadership, Los Angeles Times, movie, Nelson, Strategy, Y2K

• Bush's natural wonder

  - 2006-06-20

  INSPIRED, heartfelt, glorious -- and atypical: They are all valid adjectives for President Bush's creation last week of the world's largest marine preserve. Providing protection to 140,000 square miles of coral reefs, atolls and ocean waters that harbor turtles, monk seals and 14 million seabirds, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument...

  Tags: Bush, Los Angeles Times, president, Strategy

• US museum set to return up to 21 contested items to Italy

  - 2006-06-20

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Los Angeles's J. Paul Getty Trust, at the heart of a scandal involving antiquities allegedly stolen from Italy and Greece, is prepared to return up to 21 contested objects to Italy, a US newspaper reported. Citing "sources familiar with the strategy" of the group which...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Italy, Los Angeles Times, Strategy

• John S. Carroll.(1972)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-09-22

  John S. Carroll retired as editor of the Los Angeles Times in July. The paper's managing editor, Dean P. Baquet, will succeed him. Carroll had been with the Times since 2000 and was praised as an editor with a broad and deep vision for the newspaper and...

  Tags: Benefits, editor, HEALTHCARE, Los Angeles Times, SOFTWARE, Strategy

• Venture Capital Rises in Region, Defying U.S. Drop

  BNET - 2004-10-25

  Nationwide, venture money was harder to land in the quarter of 2004. A total of $4.6 billion was raised by 467 companies, compared with $5.4 billion in the second quarter and $4.8 billion in the third quarter of 2003. This article describes why, despite that drop-off, the investment climate remains...

  Tags: Los Angeles Times, Quarter, Venture Capital, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Management