But not everyone is impressed with this eco-friendly gesture, writes Surika van Schalkwyk.
With pressure mounting on Governor Eliot Spitzer to resign over a prostitution scandal, investigators said he was clearly a repeat customer who spent tens of thousands of dollars — perhaps as much as  000 — with the high-priced prostitution service over an extended period of time.
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/ 3 December 2007
Drivers in much of the American Northeast navigated a treacherous mix of rain, sleet and snow on Monday as a storm blamed for at least 11 deaths blanketed the region after glazing roads in the Midwest. Schools cancelled or delayed classes from New York to Maine as highways turned slippery and wind gusted to 64km/h.
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/ 14 November 2007
Tiger Consumer Brands, which owns Albany Bread, did not profit from the fixing of the price of bread, the company said on Tuesday. "The company did not benefit from the price-fixing. I don’t know who did, but we did not," said spokesperson Jimmy Manyi.
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/ 23 November 2005
Warner Music Group has agreed to pay -million to settle an investigation into payoffs for radio airplay of artists, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said on Tuesday. Warner is the second major United States recording company to reform and settle with Spitzer in a practice the attorney general called industry-wide.
One of the biggest United States music companies, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, agreed on Monday to pay -million and to stop paying radio-station employees to feature its artists to settle an investigation by New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer. The agreement resulted from an investigation of suspected ”pay for play” practices.
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/ 1 September 2004
Government cutbacks in New York are hitting a continental soldier below the belt. The statue of Copper John, a continental soldier who sits atop the state’s Auburn Correctional Facility, was removed earlier this summer for renovation. The beloved figure is set to return to his perch this fall, albeit a lesser man.