Search Results for: America
10 results out of 1903 results found for 'America'.
US FARM BILL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOR years, the US government has played Mary Poppins on agricultural subsidies, claiming that its handouts do not encourage farmers to overproduce when prices are low. Now it is not really trying to pretend.
The mask has not just slipped, it has been casually pulled off and tossed aside.…
LOW COST AIRLINES
BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal
LOW-FARE airlines are gaining a greater presence in north America, but according to the President and CEO of The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) they still have along way to go before taking on the major airlines.…
CENTRAL AMERICA
Keith Nuthall
CENTRAL American coffee producers are to receive aid worth US$ millions from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, who have agreed to re-allocate money from rural development budgets worth US$500 million, at the request of local governments, to help coffee-producing areas.…
CENTRAL AMERICA
Keith Nuthall
CENTRAL American coffee producers are to receive aid worth US$ millions from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, who have agreed to re-allocate money from rural development budgets worth US$500 million, at the request of local governments, to help coffee-producing areas.…
BOTOX
BY PHILIP FINE
BOTOX can now be sold as a temporary wrinkle remover in America, after the popular injection received approval as a cosmetic by the US Food and Drug Administration. The product, which short-circuits electrical messages from the brain to facial nerve endings, is derived from a purified form of the toxin that causes botulism.…
US SECURITY
BY PHILIP FINE
THE COST of improving America’s post-September 11 airport security may top US$6 billion, more than triple what has been budgeted. The Bush administration will ask Congress for an additional US$4.4 billion for the new Transportation Security Administration, created after 9-11, citing greater manpower needs, more expensive bomb detection equipment at airports and other factors.…
CONTRACT PRODUCTION
BY ALAN OSBORN
IN an interesting recent analysis of the problems facing livestock and other food producers in Europe, the European Union agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler suggested that one way forward could be through contract farming.
Instead of producing in the traditional way for the open market, he said, producers might consider linking with retail groups or the meat processing industry and delivering precisely what was needed in terms of both quality and quantity.…
SYNGAS
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICA’S Environmental Protection Agency is looking to add certain waste materials, now classified as hazardous, to their programme promoting alternative fuels.
The EPA is trying to expand the country’s use of gasification, a process that puts materials under high temperatures to convert them into synthetic gas.…
ALBERTA MERGER
BY MONICA DOBIE
SHAREHOLDERS of Alberta Energy Co. (AEC) and the PanCanadian Energy Corporation have voted overwhelmingly to merge the two Alberta-based companies to form EnCana Corp, which the companies say will be the largest independent energy producer in north America.…
FINGERPRINT SCANNING
BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICA’S Washington and Oregon state-based Thrift Way supermarket chain is to introduce fingerprint scanning to authorise payments, speeding up checkout queues. The new biometric technology is also designed to prevent credit card fraud. Readers on credit-card machines at checkouts check customers’ fingerprints and send encrypted data to data centres operated by Indivos, the company providing the service.…