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Bureau of Development Services Offers Lien Amnesty Program for Past Code Violations
2016-03-01 21:06:36| PortlandOnline
This limited-time program applies to all property owners who have had code enforcement liens placed against their properties by the Bureau of Development Services for building, property maintenance and zoning code violations. Eligible property owners will be notified of the program by mail during the first week of March.
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Apple Inc, Samsung Electronics Co may be using cobalt dug by children in Congo: Amnesty International
2016-01-19 19:22:59| Electronics - Topix.net
Apple is evaluating "dozens of different materials, including cobalt, in order to identify labour and environmental risks as well as opportunities for Apple to bring about effective, scalable and sustainable change," it told Amnesty. Chinese companies that buy cobalt from the Democratic Republic of Congo and supply mobile-phone and laptop makers such as Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.
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Schools to collect guns in 'amnesty boxes'
2014-09-30 15:35:40| Chemicals - Topix.net
BRIAN AGOSTO and Rafael Sanchez, two students enrolled in the welding program at the A. Philip Randolph Career & Technical High School in Nicetown, worked on a project this summer that they knew had a greater purpose. The two, along with 25 other Randolph welders, built four 36-by-28-inch metal containers known as "amnesty boxes."
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Colorado Springs Airport installs marijuana amnesty boxes
2014-01-17 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Colorado Springs Airport has installed amnesty boxes to give people an opportunity to discard their marijuana before boarding on an aircraft.
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Greenpeace activists leave Russia after Putin's amnesty
2013-12-27 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Most of the 30 people arrested for a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling left Russia on Friday under an amnesty initiated by President Vladimir Putin, the environmental group said. The activists' departure, after charges against them were dropped, removes an irritant in Putin's prickly ties with the West as Russia prepares to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in February. The demonstrators had faced up to seven years in jail for a protest at an offshore rig. The first activist...
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