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Communications workers and AT&T strike Midwest deal
July 17, 2009Nearly 20,000 AT&T workers in the Midwest will be voting on a tentative contract that their union, the Communications Workers of America, spent the last half year negotiating. The tentative agreement, reached yesterday, will be submitted...
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Health care fight reaches milestone
July 17, 2009The Obama administration is the engineer on a legislative train racing to complete a health care reform overhaul before the August congressional recess. The train has passed another major milestone in its journey: key Senate and...
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Did Zelaya violate the constitution?
July 17, 2009The mediation efforts of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias in the Honduran situation seem to be headed for failure. Elected, yet deposed, President Manuel Zelaya says he is the only legitimate head of state, as does...
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WORLDNOTES Equatorial Guinea, Australia, Afghanistan, UN, Guyana, Cuba
July 17, 2009Equatorial Guinea: Corporations, banks back corruption Oil money has been diverted to the ruling few while people languish “in poverty worse than in Afghanistan or Chad,” according to a Human Rights Watch report issued last week....
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‘Laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination’
July 17, 2009The Rev. Martin Luther King was present when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964. Prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin, it was the most...
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