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Reports of the death of union card check still premature
July 18, 2009A report in the New York Times today that says senators have “dropped” the majority sign-up provision of the Employee Free Choice Act is not accurate. A spokesperson for Sen. Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who...
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Thief steals unlicensed cab, gets caught
July 18, 2009BEIJING, July 9 -- A man was taken into custody this weekend for allegedly stealing a vehicle operating as an unlicensed cab in Beijing's Haidian area. The thief thought the vehicle owner would never report the...
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Zelaya gives coup leaders ultimatum
July 18, 2009The mediator in Honduras's political crisis is looking increasingly discredited after proposing further talks between the ousted president and the leader of the right-wing coup. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has scheduled the further talks to...
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US pulling out from Manta military base in Ecuador
July 18, 2009Quito, Jul 17 (Prensa Latina) The United States stopped Friday its operations at the Manta military base, on the Ecuadorian coast, and started the process for its definitive withdrawal from that military camp, occupied since 1999....
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COMMENTARY Affirmative action and disregard of evidence
July 18, 2009The five reactionary Supreme Court judges ignored evidence and ruled to let stand the results of a 2003 firefighter promotion test, even though no African Americans were promoted, and despite the fact that second-generation fire fighters,...
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