The tax also applies to bags made from paper, plant-based material, or natural starch.
Mr Swanepoel argues that a plunge on Wall Street might scare investors away from paper.
Most of the gains came from paper rises on its investments and derivative contracts.
In that context, can mobile wean us from paper where other technologies have failed?
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The switch from paper to plastic is not confined to America and Europe.
Several countries have already switched from paper to plastic, at least in part.
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Gold was needed to pay foreign suppliers who knew even back then that no good could come from paper money.
The result is a tactile feeling game that looks like it has been made from paper and then stop-motion captured.
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He'd provide an Internet marketplace where small and medium-size businesses could buy routine supplies, from paper clips to fluorescent lighting fixtures.
As the industry moves from paper records to electronic health records (EHR), protected health information (PHI) is now more susceptible to exposure than ever.
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As the New York Times pointed out, they were good at getting people to shift their news consumption from paper to the Web.
The federal government has tried to promote the switch from paper medical records to electronic ones in hopes of improving efficiency and bringing down health costs.
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We are optimistic on our estimate largely because of the shift away from paper based transactions which will drive sales on credit cards and debit cards.
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The shift from paper eliminated the need for two dozen transcribers and filing staff at police headquarters, and freed desk-bound officers to return to the streets.
Further, the looming role of the electronic medical record will also set into motion a transformation from paper to electrons will catalyze the digital health movement and accelerate adoption.
And the newspaper companies' tribulations do not necessarily presage the demise of the news business, for they stem in part from the tumultuous and expensive transition from paper to electronic distribution.
Like e-book pioneers in America, they point to the trend away from paper-based products as the technology for downloading and displaying text electronically gets cheaper, more convenient and easier on the eyes.
More surprising is how Mr Chandler, at 52, then withdrew from the paper he had worked so assiduously to professionalise, absenting himself from the paper and the city he and his family had done so much to develop.
As part of a congressionally mandated drive to wean U.S. taxpayers from paper, the IRS plans to send out only 29.5 million paper tax packages this year--half the number it sent five years ago and just one for every 4.5 tax filers.
They would be asked to switch from paper to electronic medical records, to organize with other doctors to reduce medical complications and unnecessary costs, to try to arrive at a package price for a child with asthma or a man with kidney stones.
Based upon data from the paper, the cooling climate impact from the decrease in the average global cloud height more than offset the positive forcing from an increase in greenhouse gases from human activities in the last decade.
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That amount is not likely to be much: Major marketers have been pulling their advertising from the paper in droves in an attempt to distance themselves from the scandal.
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The verdict from an April briefing paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of St.
All revenue from the paper's final edition will go to "good causes, " he said earlier.
But the message from this paper is simple: It sounds a whole lot easier than it is.
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The Institute of Medicine calculated that 7, 000 Americans were dying each year from preventable paper prescription errors.
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Understanding the findings from this paper should make you a more informed dater, not a more cautious one.
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He directs his empire from a paper-stacked desk in an open room surrounded by the desks of his lieutenants.
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She was drinking coffee and eating a glazed doughnut from a paper bag.
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