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India farmers stop price freeze on sugar cane
November 21, 2009NEW DELHI- Over 12,000 sugarcane farmers demonstrated in New Delhi on Thursday (Nov. 19) to demand higher prices for their crop.
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Workers, left parties meet on global economic crisis
November 20, 2009NEW DELHI -- There could not be an agenda more significant for the communist and workers parties' 11th international meeting than global capitalism's deep and ongoing economic crisis.
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Are we left behind in the ‘green production’ revolution?
November 20, 2009Institute for America's Future experts: China has a national industrial strategy. We do not. And we better come up with one soon.
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Feeling heat, U.S.-China firms say they’ll build turbines here
November 19, 2009Under pressure from the nation’s biggest manufacturing union, a U.S.-China energy partnership said it would build a factory here, creating 1,000 jobs.
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Paid sick days called key to slowing swine flu
November 18, 2009Unions, family advocates and health professionals are pressing Congress to pass emergency paid sick days legislation so workers can stay home if they get sick.
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