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How NYC’s Foam-Container Ban Won Over an Association Ally

Associations Now

Despite the higher cost of using alternatives to polystyrene containers for food packaging, the New York State Restaurant Association backed the city’s new ban on the material, thanks in part to some key concessions. The association told The Wall Street Journal [subscription] that alternatives cost more than twice as much.

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Labor Tensions Cause Port Headaches for Retail, Manufacturing Industries

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The projected cost, per day, of a 10-day port shutdown on the West Coast, according to an estimate supplied by global management consulting firm Kurt Salmon on behalf of the National Retail Federation and the National Association of Manufacturers. In 2002, after a 10-day work stoppage at the ports, President George W.

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Can You Better Serve Your Tradeshow Market?

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So, he started throwing small industry festivals in his Los Angeles warehouse. But given a number of factors, including costs and staffing, associations can’t create new tradeshows for every audience. Levant is a go-getter: He launched a clothing brand at 16 and attended large fashion tradeshows to get the word out.

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Ready for Applications: TSA’s PreCheck Program Expands to Public

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For those approved, enrollment costs is $85 and lasts for five years. (To ” The Global Business Travel Association, meanwhile , stated its support for the move in a press release but criticized a proposal to increase the airport security fee on airline tickets (see sidebar for more details).

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Innovation: Key to Boosting Meeting Attendance

Associations Now

Earlier this week, it announced it would postpone its 2013 Publishing Conference scheduled for later this month in Los Angeles. But even with sequestration effects and rising travel costs for attendees , associations can’t give up on meetings and events. Take the Western Publishing Association.