Credit unions remake themselves in image of payday lenders

By Ben Hallman

Credit unions remake themselves in image of payday lenders

Excerpts from this story referencing "producer":

"… sh for car loans On a recent Saturday morning, Sam Heredia, a 29-year-old producer for a Spanish language morning radio show, stopped in at a Nix Check Cashi …"

"… banking and asked owner Howard Hughes, the aviator, engineer and Hollywood producer, for permission to start a credit union at the plant. “Just keep my nam …"

Fact Watch: Playing politics with gasoline prices; both parties make questionable claims

By FactCheck.Org

Democrats and Republicans both demagogue the gasoline price issue

Excerpts from this story referencing "producer":

"… otal revenues for about two dozen integrated oil companies and independent producers. By her unofficial calculations, Dougher said, the average so far in the …"

"… rst quarter of this year is 7.6 cents per dollar of sales. “If you are a producer and getting more money for a barrel your profits go up,” she said.But en …"

Use of toxic acid puts millions at risk

By Jim Morris and Chris Hamby

A 2009 explosion in Corpus Christ sheds light on danger of toxic acid cloud

Excerpts from this story referencing "producer":

"… unoco is contesting the citation.Safer alternativeThere are at least three producers of solid acid catalyst, and they say it is much safer than either HF or s …"

"… her HF or sulfuric acid and less likely to corrode refinery equipment. One producer, a consortium consisting of Albemarle, ABB Lummus Global and Neste Oil, sh …"

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Tobacco company penalties may signal U.S. crackdown on industry practices overseas

By Traver Riggins and Ricardo Sandoval Palos

A flurry of federal enforcement action targeting payoffs by subsidiaries of two U.S. tobacco companies may signal a broader regulatory assau

Excerpts from this story referencing "producer":

"… resolution of civil and criminal actions against two international tobacco producers said to have paid out a combined $6.2 million to officials of seven forei …"

"… officials of the Thailand Tobacco Monopoly, the government-owned cigarette producer, allegedly received more than $1 million from both Alliance and Universal …"

"… legislation that would tax competitors, yet spare Universal, the American producer paid $10,000 to the wife of an official with the Mozambique Ministry of Ag …"

Conservative fund taps "Willie Horton" producer for new mosque ad

By Peter H. Stone

The American Future Fund, which aims to almost triple its issue advertisement spending for this year’s election, launched a hard-hitting tel

Public housing, private frustration

By Brian Ross, Avni Patel, John Solomon and Laurel Adams

HUD-funded housing projects wasted money on belly dancers, sex offenders and dead residents....

Excerpts from this story referencing "producer":

"… y crumbling around them. This past summer, Toveka Jones took an ABC News producer through a tour of her HUD-subsidized apartment, pointing out locations whe …"

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Pentagon balks at report about rare earth metal reliance on China

By Laurel Adams

Pentagon owes Congress a report on China's dominance of the rare earth minerals market and implications for US

Excerpts from this story referencing "producer":

"… systems, laser devices and telescopes.The United States used to be the top producer in the rare earth industry, but it is now almost entirely dependent on Chi …"

"… earth oxides, is the only exporter of refined earth metals and is the top producer of the two strongest magnets, samarium cobalt and neodymium iron boron. Th …"

The food lobby's war on a soda tax

By Christine Spolar and Joe Eaton

Washington lobbyists have been enjoying a multi-million-dollar sugar rush from the food industry. Soft drink makers, supermarket companies,

Excerpts from this story referencing "producer":

"… food industry: Democratic Chairman Max Baucus hails from Montana, a large producer of sugar beets. Iowa, the home state of ranking Republican Chuck Grassley, …"

"… home state of ranking Republican Chuck Grassley, is the nation’s largest producer of corn.“It ran into a committee with a lot of farm members,” said Chu …"

"… e who are directly active and engaged in the process.”In addition to the producers of Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, and Snapple, Americans Against Food Taxe …"

Exporting an epidemic

By Jim Morris

Human toll reaches millions as asbestos industry expands worldwide

Excerpts from this story referencing "producer":

"… the United Nations at nearly $400 million. Russia is the world’s biggest producer, China the biggest consumer. But Canada — which uses almost no asbestos …"

"… mental rules. “When asbestos was banned in industrialized countries and [producers] started to lose money, they came to the developing countries to recover …"

"… ea for help from a trade union chief. Putin “promised to support Russian producers of chrysotile, especially in situations where we find ourselves under pol …"

"… That’s my personal choice.”Canada today is the world’s fifth largest producer of asbestos and its fourth largest exporter, shipping $97 million of raw f …"

The Brockovich of Brazil

By Jim Morris

Fernanda Giannasi fights a potent asbestos industry

Excerpts from this story referencing "producer":

"… those deaths are expected in Brazil, now the world’s third-biggest producer of asbestos. Brazil is also the world’s third largest exporter …"

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