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  • Firms export jobs

    Firms export jobs

    November 5, 2004

    Book Review Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas By Lou Dobbs Warner Books, 2004 Hardcover, 208 pp., $19.95 Lou Dobbs is a television business journalist and, he says proudly, a lifelong Republican....

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  • International notes

    International notes

    November 5, 2004

    China: Private workplaces should be union The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) last week reiterated its demand that all private enterprises, including foreign-owned firms, comply with Chinese labor law and allow their workers to unionize....

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  • Cuba moves to be dollar-free

    Cuba moves to be dollar-free

    November 5, 2004

    Up against sharpened threats against Cuba’s revolution and a reduced flow of U.S. dollars to Cuba, the government there has acted dramatically to move towards a dollar-free domestic economy. The goal is to prioritize dollars for...

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  • Results mixed in California contests

    Results mixed in California contests

    November 5, 2004

    In California, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer won a third term by a whopping 58 percent to 38 percent margin over Republican challenger and former Secretary of State Bill Jones, despite the support Jones received from Republican...

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  • Coalition gets New Hampshire vote out

    Coalition gets New Hampshire vote out

    November 5, 2004

    NASHUA, N.H. — In a state where Republicans outnumber Democrats, voters in New Hampshire gave its electoral votes to Sen. John Kerry and threw out their GOP governor, Craig Benson, to elect Democrat John Lynch. Both...

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