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  • EDITORIAL Regulation: the next frontier

    EDITORIAL Regulation: the next frontier

    May 21, 2009

    Now that U.S. taxpayers have invested a trillion dollars -- plus $10 trillion more in credit -- many are asking 'What happens next to prevent a repeat of this fiasco?' Part of the answer can perhaps...

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  • EDITORIAL Want to secure Social Security? Lift the cap

    EDITORIAL Want to secure Social Security? Lift the cap

    May 21, 2009

    Right-wing Republican Party-linked think tanks want to eliminate Social Security. They are using a recent report from the Social Security trustees that indicate the recession has harmed the long-term financial security of the program's trust fund...

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  • The nameless factory behind the Lipton global brand name

    The nameless factory behind the Lipton global brand name

    May 21, 2009

    Be 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

    Unions urge OSHA to enforce swine flu worker protections

    May 21, 2009

    Original 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

    Free-marketeer to take power in India

    May 21, 2009

    Original 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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