Brown Motion

CRV as labeled on recyclable containers sold in the state of California. By law (I presume) it is an IOU, to refund a deposit taken.   Explicitly stated a promise to the consumer that a container deposit will be taken upfront on their purchase of said container, which will then be returned on recycling of empties. Latter is where the scam begins.  Returns.  In order to return said container one must have a facility that processes incoming empties.  In a state with 40+ million people largely scattered across five or so major metro areas millions of empties are generated on a daily basis.  Water, soda, and many other versions of gaseous or non gaseous, alcoholic or non type beverage containers make the majority. Sometimes the cost of the containers is as high as 40% of the product's sale price that a consumer pays at checkout.  Yet to reclaim that back is a process as arduous as perhaps making the container themselves. First job to find a locatio...

These two words were quite mysterious, growing up or when I first started understanding the English language.  Also my growth (as it were) amidst a bunch of relatives that had an occupation that involved printing literature in the local newsmedia added to the puzzle. Who had to stop and what did they press?  Of course the realization that 'Press' meant anyone from the news organization (at least at that time) or a journalist of some kind impressed me with the idea that stopping them during their runabouts was not a smart thing to do. If you see a frenzied journo the last thing you want to do is get in their way.  You will be the one that gets pressed much akin to being gored by a bull during the inhuman sporting practice followed by people in Northern Spain.  They call it running with the bulls.  Now who has more sense in the melee that follows is debatable but you get the idea. Anyway the reason for the title and the long preamble to the main me...