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Oil company price gouging provokes fightback
June 8, 2007WASHINGTON — Anger over skyrocketing gasoline prices is turning to fightback with more than 570,768 people signing an online petition to the U.S. Senate demanding that they approve a bill that makes gasoline price gouging a...
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Court to women: Equal pay, no way
June 8, 2007Question: What court ruled recently that paying women less is OK as long as you don’t get caught for 180 days? Answer: The Supreme Court of the United States. Question: What court laid out a blueprint...
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WHAT’S REALLY GOOD
June 8, 2007Burger King: a ‘Whopper’ suspect Last April, days after McDonald’s agreed to pay farmworkers an extra penny per pound of picked tomatoes, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in Florida began to campaign against their new...
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50 years in Iraq?
June 8, 2007WASHINGTON — Disbelief greeted the White House admission that President George W. Bush envisions U.S. occupation of Iraq for 50 years, modeled on the more than half-century U.S. occupation of South Korea. Bush’s press secretary, Tony...
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Arrested over health care
June 8, 2007Twenty-two union leaders were arrested at the State Capitol in Hartford, Conn., June 1, as they called for universal health care.The arrests were made at different locations throughout the Capitol building amid a heavy police presence....
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