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Penn Treaty Receives Offer for Second Agency Subsidiary

ALLENTOWN, Pa., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Penn Treaty American Corporation (Pink Sheets: PTYA) today announced that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary, Network Insurance Senior Health Division ("ISHD"). The Company will disclose the i...

Penn Treaty Files 2006 Form 10-K

ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Penn Treaty American Corporation (NYSE: PTA ) today announced that it has filed its Form 10-K and audited financial results for the period ended December 31, 2006, reporting a net loss of $33.2 million, or $1.42 per fully diluted share. ...

Penn Treaty Introduces LTCi QuickPass(SM) Program

New streamlined pre-application process helps make sale of long-term care insurance simpler for producers ALLENTOWN, Pa., March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Penn Treaty Network America Insurance Company (NYSE: PTA ) has developed a new streamlined pre- application process whi...

Nations to Launch Negotiations on Treaty to Combat Illicit Tobacco Trade

International Cooperation Can Save Lives and Billions of Dollars GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On, February 11, representatives from more than 150 countries will begin negotiations here on an historic international treaty to combat illicit trade in tobacco product...

U.S. on Sidelines as Nations Launch Negotiations on Treaty to Combat Smuggling, Counterfeiting and Other Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Statement of Matthew L. Myers President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: Today in Geneva, Switzerland, more than 150 countries will begin negotiations on an historic international treaty to combat smuggling, counterfeiting and other illicit trade ...

Penn Treaty Urges Americans To Plan for Their Future During Long-Term Care Awareness Week

Long-term care insurance provides important financial protection and peace of mind for an aging population ALLENTOWN, Pa., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Penn Treaty American Corporation, a pioneer in the long-term care insurance (LTCi) industry, will join with other leading LTCi pro...

Penn Treaty First To Offer Brain Fitness Program

ALLENTOWN, Pa., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Penn Treaty American Corporation (NYSE: PTA ), a leading long-term care insurance provider, has become the first in the industry to promote brain fitness as a tool to enrich its clients' lives. This move is part of a greater wellness initiative...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

The 192 members of WHO unanimously adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) aimed at curbing tobacco-related deaths and disease on 22nd May 2003. The Convention requires countries to impose restrictions on tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion, establish new labelling and...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

The 192 members of WHO unanimously adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) aimed at curbing tobacco-related deaths and disease on 22nd May 2003. The Convention requires countries to impose restrictions on tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion, establish new labelling and...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

The 192 members of WHO unanimously adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) aimed at curbing tobacco-related deaths and disease on 22nd May 2003. The Convention requires countries to impose restrictions on tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion, establish new labelling and...

Treaty in Medical Dictionary

Proliferation

...WIDE ... Observance of the non- proliferation treaty rested on a bargain between those ... Any progress within the non- proliferation treaty is therefore likely to be on ... Smooth muscl...oactive cell proliferation assays have ... treaty on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT...

Treaty in Biological News

Environmental peace treaty between Israel and Palestinians unveiled at Ben-Gurion University

SEDE BOQER, ISRAEL - May 29, 2008 A model for an agreement on environmental cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians was unveiled this week at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR) of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The agreement was created by Prof. Alon Tal, a...

Purdue researchers propose way to incorporate deforestation into climate change treaty

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers have proposed a new option for incorporating deforestation into the international climate change treaty. Kevin Gurney, lead author of the proposal and an associate director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, will provide testimony ...

Antarctic Treaty Meeting moves to protect frozen continent from non-native species

Important new measures to protect Antarctica ?the world's last great wilderness ?from invasive non-native species have been agreed at a meeting of Antarctic experts in Edinburgh. Scientists and policy makers at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, which finished at Edinburgh International C...

Anti-biotech groups obstruct forest biotechnology

...c discussions tend to be extremely low and highly combative." The researchers believe that major changes in the structure and interpretation of the treaty are required to prevent its continued misuse in ways that they argue "is clearly against its original spirit and intent." ...

Leading scientists and scholars urge action on climate issues

...ssing this issues in the United States is generally thought to be crucial in order for the negotiations at the COP lead to a significant international treaty to follow on the Kyoto Protocol. The letter was initiated after discussion among four scholars long involved in the issues: J. G. Speth, currently...

Norway, Japan prop up whaling industry with taxpayer money

...of the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on commercial whaling, kill up to 2,000 whales a year, exploiting loopholes in the IWC's founding treaty that allow whaling under 'objection' to management decisions (Norway) and "scientific" whaling for research purposes (Japan). Ahead of the 61st I...

New simulation shows consequences of a world without Earth's natural sunscreen

...ddard scientist Paul Newman, the team simulated "what might have been" if chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and similar chemicals were not banned through the treaty known as the Montreal Protocol. The simulation used a comprehensive model that included atmospheric chemical effects, wind changes, and radiation chan...

Termite killer lingers as a potent greenhouse gas

...ons on global warming is comparably small. Widespread use of sulfuryl fluoride began in the 1990s following the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty ratified in 1987 to protect the ozone layer by reducing the production of ozone-depleting chemicals. The protocol ordered the gradual discontinuation ...

Value of satellites recognized for conserving wetlands

...s carried out in collaboration with the Ramsar Convention an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands. ESA recently pres...s the Strategic Plan that specifies measures to implement the international treaty for wetlands conservation from 2009 to 2014, and the 'Changwon Declaration ...

The inaudible symphony analyzed

... sounds from one other and to identify their sources. Nuclear Test Ban treaty Large explosions in the vicinity are easy to recognise, for example the ...und nuclear tests. KNMI helps to enforce the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban treaty of 1996, which prohibits signatories from testing nuclear devices. Dozens o...

Treaty in Biological Technology

Hawaii Biotech Receives Funding From the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative

...ion established at the initiative of the United Nations Development Programme under the Vienna Convention of 1969 as amended. The IVI operates under a treaty signed by 40 countries and the World Health Organization. It is governed by an independent Board of Trustees. The Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative ...

AT&T - BellSouth merger: Revestiture continues

...ition of net neutrality become a standard. Once they become a huge monopoly again, net neutrality will fade into insignificance like the Versailles treaty did after World War I. Not a Democrat or Republican issue If you are looking at the merger as a Republican victory or looking at the mention ...

Treaty in Biological Definition

Biodiversity

...y. Species Richness Simpson Index Shannon-Wiener Index See also Biocomplexity Fair trade Global 200 International treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture List of environment topics External links ActionBioscience , a project of the Amer...

Treaty in Biological Dictionary

Tripartite

...ally, it may also refer to any of the following: The Tripartite Pact, also called the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II. The pact was... Definition of tripa...