... amidst adverse market conditions and increasing costs. During 2006, EIA data
show declines in the number of green power customers in Washington, D.C. and Virginia but
gains in Texas, Maryland, ... Challenges
Over the past two years, utilities and their marketing partners have increased the use of green
power challenges” to increase participation and awareness for their...
... documents green power marketing activities and trends in the United States. First,
aggregate green power sales data for all voluntary purchase markets across the United States is
presented. The next ... contact all utility green pricing programs and received data for about 60% of programs in
2009, including all of the major programs. The remaining programs, wh...
...
customers purchased green power. More recently, significant marketing activity has been
concentrated in Texas, as well as Mid-Atlantic and New England states—including Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts, ... participation rates among all programs remained relatively steady at about 1%,
primarily due to a large number of relatively inactive programs and the introduction of new
prog...
... public interest. As in
many businesses, programs must balance investing in consumer education, expanding program
participation, keeping participation affordable, and maintaining standards for ... participate. As a result,
marketing costs could increase again in the later years of a program.
The question of program marketing expenditures inevitably leads to broader issues...
... guidelines. Two organizations
in particular have issued broad regulations pertaining to medical mar-
keting: the American Medical Association (“AMA”) and the Pharma-
ceutical Research and Manufacturers ... drugs dramatically increase already exorbi-
tant healthcare costs by encouraging wasteful overspending.
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As medical marketing re...
... in the United States. This vaccine was transferred from
a strain that was maintained at the University of Montreal (Montreal, Canada).
Vaccine Efficacy
Reported rates of the protective efficacy ... useful in determining a) the efficacy of
BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered
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and the vaccinee’s age a...
... discrimination in all its programs and
activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable,
sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, ... acres using an uneven-age management thinning regime
aimed at maintaining high structural diversity and containing no limits on basal
area removed yielded the greatest number of acres trea...
... Races.
Theories of monogenism and polygenism. Doctrine of “geographical provinces” or
“areas of characterization.” The continental areas at the date of man’s appearance on
the earth. Eurafrica, ... embracing all his nature and all the manifestations of his
activity, in the past as well as in the present, the whole co-ordinated in accordance
with the inductive methods...
... Act. The act repealed all
restrictions against the combination of banking, securities and insurance operations for financial
institutions. The deregulation was a boon for national commercial ... evolution of a national
banking system.
The crumbling walls of Glass-Steagall received a final blow in 1999 when Congress passed the
Financial Modernization Act, also known as...