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Massachusetts reached agreements with leaders of four major public sector unions on cost-cutting measures aimed at saving the state millions of dollars and preventing hundreds of layoffs, officials said on Friday. Secretary of Administration and Finance...
Tags: Massachusetts, House, Boston, Trade unions, Labour relations, Labor, Governors of Massachusetts, Robert DeLeo, Deval Patrick, Furlough, Military terminology, Business Finance, Politics, Governor of Oklahoma
Deora said, "All oil and gas installation in the country will carry safety audit conforming to the statutory norms and all of them have to submit their reports to the regulatory authority by the end of this year." He added hat safety council is being...
Tags: oil industry safety directorate, Murli Deora, oil depots, House, India, New Delhi, Deora, Year of birth missing, Oil depot, Disaster Accident
House prices have fallen since February but appear to have stablised over the past two months, the CBS said. Prices were down nationwide but the drop was sharpest in Groningen (-8.1%) and smallest in Overijssel (-2.3%). In total, 11,400 homes changed...
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But beginning in June, when other House leaders were still focused on passing a climate change bill, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) was beginning his quest to ensure that a very ideologically diverse caucus and a definitively liberal leadership...
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Running statewide often presents different challenges from running in one’s home district, so while Reps. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) and former Rep. Rob Simmons (R-Conn.) might have done things one way in their House districts, their Senate...
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30 p.m. eastern time at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. House and Burns also will attend the Nike Champions Banquet at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., today. Alberto Salazar, a former collegiate and U.S. cross country champion...
As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians. From New York to Chicago to Los Angeles, lawmakers from...
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Amid all of the uncertainties about how healthcare legislation would affect each American, one thing is clear: The more affluent would pay higher taxes. Embracing the progressive -- and sometimes politically risky -- principle that the cost of carrying...
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To their credit, Republican leaders in the Indiana Senate majority proposed three steps last week for changing the way that the General Assembly redraws political boundaries every 10 years. The leadership would support legislation to establish criteria...
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Why I voted no on health reform Without cost-control, health-care reform is an empty promise Friday, November 20, 2009 The need for health-care reform is clear: The skyrocketing cost of health care threatens America's financial future and our ability...
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