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State arts councils help sponsor local arts and crafts festivals which draw crowds of tourist consumers.

A woman encouraged to try knitting and crocheting after developing an autoimmune disease that caused a lot of hand pain reported on the Craft Yam Council site that her hands are now less stiff and painful.

Last April, the council created a Stitch Away Stress campaign in honor of National Stress Awareness Month.

Philadelphia's new measure was approved by a 13 to 4 city council vote.

since the 1990s, the council has surveyed hundreds of thousands of knitters and crocheters, who routinely list stress relief and creative fulfillment as the activities' main benefits.

The Craft Yarn Council reports that a third of women ages 25-35 now knit or crochet.

While the city council vote was met with applause inside the council room, opponents to the measure, including soda lobbyists made sharp criticisms and a promise to challenge the tax in court.

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product claims.

When you see things like Ford moving new production from Mexico to Detroit, instead of the other way around, you know things are changing," says Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council.

Comparing 1929 with 2007-09, Christina Romer, the head of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, finds the initial blow to confidence far greater now than then

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product cl

Labour likewise wants to discontinue local planning where councils oppose development.

In 1924 America's National Research Council sent two engineers to supervise a series of experiments at a telephone parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago.

Now he's living in a council flat and fielding offers from literary agents.

Seven months and one election day later, a new conservative city council suspended enforcement of the clean air zone, a first step toward its possible demise.