David Miliband, the environment secretary, told the BBC on Sunday that throw-away carrier bags would become a thing of the past within a few years.

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Are we, in a fit of anger, going to throw away the legal and commercial advances of the past 300 years because most of us have recently lost a lot of money?

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"I had campaigned on the promise that we are one Tulsa and all the divisions we had in the past, we need to throw away, " Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr. said in an interview Sunday.

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