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Merck gives up push for girls to get shots
Drug-making giant Merck & Co. has announced that it will halt its efforts to pressure states into making the vaccination of all young girls against a sexually transmitted disease mandatory.
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Progressives See Bad Policy in Growing Trade Gap
The US trade deficit has ballooned once again to record levels. While some see the trade gap as a natural economic phenomenon, public-interest groups and progressive economists say it represents an unsustainable trade agenda that harms workers across
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Trade deficit a real threat
If you thought the rapidly mounting price tag for the war in Iraq was more than this country could afford, consider this statistic: The U.S. trade deficit is increasing at a rate of roughly $25,000 a second.
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Wall Street Leader Demands Dems Reject Bush's "Free" Trade Agenda
It's not everyday you find a Wall Street leader who is willing to tell the truth about the failures of America's lobbyist-written trade policy. That's why I was thrilled to co-write this new San Francisco Chronicle op-ed with Wall Street leader Leo H
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Equal lack of opportunity: Global job market squeezes the old and the young
UNITED NATIONS, New York: Young people are increasingly unable to get a foothold in the global labor market, and a work force that is rapidly growing older is finding less job security, according to an analysis of employment trends.
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Chinese mine treating PNG workers \'like slaves\'
LOCAL workers building China's $1billion nickel mine in Papua New Guinea are being treated like slaves and paid just $4 a day, according to PNG Labour Secretary David Tibu, who is threatening to shut the site down.
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The VAT: Menace to free trade
The impact of the Value Added Tax, or VAT, on international trade is a complicated aspect of global commerce that is generally only comprehended by experts. Yet, the impact of the VAT may be the single most important variable in explaining U.S. balan
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Global court to decide on launching first trial
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) will decide on Monday whether there is enough evidence to try a Congolese militiaman for using children as soldiers in what would be the new court's first trial.
A decision to confirm ch
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Brazil\'s Lula urges Doha progress
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on rich nations not to hold back the developing world by lack of flexibility on global trade talks.
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Corporate Control of the Media
omorrow night President Bush will give his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. Last weekend, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders gave what could be described as an alternate State of the Union before thousands gathered in Memphi
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Threat to New York as centre of finance
New York is facing a threat to its position as the world's leading financial centre, according to a report commissioned by Michael Bloomberg, the city's mayor, and New York Senator Chuck Schumer.
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Beijing to diversify investment strategies
China is to diversify the use of its swelling foreign exchange reserves, a policy change that is likely to mean a rise in investment in overseas securities and more purchasing of foreign technology and raw materials.
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Iraq could open oil reserves to foreign firms
LONDON (AFP) -
Iraq is preparing to allow foreign companies to exploit its oil reserves, according to a British newspaper report that cited a draft law expected to come before the Iraqi parliament.
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The Independent on Sunday report
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Iraq\'s oil: The spoils of war
Iraqis face the dire prospect of losing up to $200bn (£116bn) of the wealth of their country if an American-inspired plan to hand over development of its oil reserves to US and British multinationals comes into force next year. A report produced by A
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TAFTA\'s making a comeback
Government officials on both sides of the Atlantic have been revisiting the idea of opening freer trade channels between Europe and North America. Why? To compete with China of course. Ethan Lindsey reports.
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Merkel promotes Tafta with Bush
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 A U.S.-European economic partnership like Nafta is critical to both regions' economies, new European Union President Angela Merkel of Germany says.
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True deficit: $3.5 trillion
A report scheduled to be released by the Treasury Department tomorrow is expected to show the true deficit in the Bush administration's 2006 federal budget to be an astounding $3.5 trillion in the red, not $248.2 billion as previously reported.
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U.S. dollar facing imminent collapse?
Even as the stock market is hitting new record highs almost every day, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department are quietly coordinating a devaluation of the dollar that the Bush administration hopes will be a slow decline rather than a dollar col
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Dubai Ports participating in U.S. security plan
Dubai Ports World, the Arab-owned firm whose purchase of American port facilities caused a U.S. political uproar, will join a program aimed at stopping nuclear weapons being smuggled into the United States, sources familiar with the agreement said on
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Ranchers fight huge government land grab in Colorado
<i>Peter Roper</i>, <b>The Pueblo Chieftain</b>, November 07, 2006
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