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The nameless factory behind the Lipton global brand name
May 21, 2009Be the best you can be': Unilever's Lipton tea factory in Karachi has no name, no logo and no permanent employees. Lipton, as one of Unilever's leading billion dollar brands, is aggressively promoted in multi-million dollar...
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Unions urge OSHA to enforce swine flu worker protections
May 21, 2009Original source: With more than 5,000 confirmed and probable cases of the H1NI (swine flu) virus in the United States—including 82 infections in health care workers—as well as six deaths and reports that the virus is...
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Free-marketeer to take power in India
May 21, 2009Original source: Indian PM Manmohan Singh vowed to prioritise ' socially inclusive and equitable' economic growth on Tuesday after newly-elected Congress MPs formally chose him as their leader for a second term. Congress Party chief Sonia...
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Labor Dept. dangles big carrot to get states to expand jobless aid
May 20, 2009The U.S. Labor Department is dangling a $3.5 billion carrot in front of state governments to get them to expand the numbers and categories of workers eligible for unemployment benefits. Hilda Solis, President Obama’s new secretary...
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Baseball bats & CEOs
May 20, 2009Who doesn’t revel when reading a story about a grandmother who bonks a bandit on the head with a baseball bat? Yet I have to wonder why white-collar bandits are treated with some kind of “code...
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