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		<title>Agreement on licensing clears way for vote on handover of NJ&#8217;s first casino to its lenders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Parry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The financially strapped Resorts Atlantic City, America&#8217;s first casino outside Nevada, moved closer to being taken over by lenders after they agreed to seek a full New Jersey casino license.

A new company formed by the lenders, RAC Atlantic City Holdings LLC, will seek a full one-year license rather than a lower-level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hummer, symbol of America&#8217;s love of big, is now in hands of Chinese heavy equipment maker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Krisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT — Hummer, the off-road vehicle that once epitomized America&#8217;s love for hulking trucks, is now in the hands of a Chinese heavy equipment maker.

General Motors Co. and Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corp. finally signed the much-anticipated deal for GM to sell the brand on Friday.
Tengzhong will get an 80 percent stake in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xerox to purchase Affiliated Computer Services in cash-and-stock deal valued at $5.75 billion</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/xerox-to-purchase-affiliated-computer-services-in-cash-and-stock-deal-valued-at-575-billion-180957/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Xerox Corp. has agreed to buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc. for about $5.75 billion in cash and stock, the companies announced Monday.

The deal calls for Xerox to pay $63.11 for each ACS shares and will create a $22 billion business that will mesh both printing and copying services with the information technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE INFLUENCE GAME: Little-known lobbyist scores money for birth centers in health overhaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Karen Fennell is not your typical high-rolling lobbyist with a fat expense account and clients paying six-figure fees.

But this former nurse is doing something that Gucci-clad lobbyists would envy: she&#8217;s won her clients some coveted federal money in the battle over health care.
How she did it is a case study in how Washington&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blairs&#8217; renovation plan angers neighbours</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - Former British Prime Minister Tony  Blair and at loggerheads with their neighbours after the couple planned to add a guesthouse to their 5.75-million-pound country mansion.

Tony and Cherie Blair want to turn a derelict gardener&#8217;s  cottage into a two-bedroom, two-bathroom house.
But  neighbours  have  filed objections  to  plans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Villagers in Indonesia oppose burying terror suspects in their hometowns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niniek Karmini</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JAKARTA, Indonesia — Plans to give hometown burials to three suspected al-Qaida-linked Islamist militants killed in a police raid last week are being opposed by some residents, who say they don&#8217;t want their villages to be known as resting places for terrorists.

Family members on Friday identified the bodies of the three, claiming the remains at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hummer buyer says it likely will locate headquarters in southeast Michigan near Detroit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Krisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT — The Chinese company that&#8217;s in the running to buy Hummer from General Motors Co. likely will locate the brand&#8217;s corporate headquarters near Detroit, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Spokesman Nick Richards says Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corp., which is still negotiating to buy the brand, initially will employ about 100 people at the headquarters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazilian beef producer JBS to buy majority of Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride out of bankruptcy for $800M</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Fredrix</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE — Chicken producer Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride Corp. confirmed Tuesday that Brazilian beef producer JBS SA will buy a majority stake in the company for $800 million in a deal that will let Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride emerge from bankruptcy protection.

The deal includes paying off Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride&#8217;s creditors in full and also a distribution of new stock to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yugoslav war crimes tribunal authorizes early release of former Bosnian Serb President Plavsic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal announced Tuesday it has approved the early release from prison of former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic after she served two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for persecution.

The decision means that one of the most senior political leaders ever convicted by the U.N. court could walk free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressional skepticism grows over policy in Afghanistan; Feinstein wants withdrawal timeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Congressional skepticism over the Obama administration&#8217;s plans for Afghanistan mounted Sunday as four senators questioned whether more troops should head there and one lawmaker called for a withdrawal timeline.

Democrats Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Diane Feinstein of California and Dick Durbin of Illinois along with Republican Susan Collins of Maine said they shared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syringes and sidearms: Police add venipuncture to arsenal of drunk driving tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Boone</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOISE, Idaho — When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he&#8217;ll pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the driver&#8217;s arms, as he tries to search for a plump, bouncy vein.

&#8220;I was looking at people&#8217;s arms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal judge declares mistrial in first trial over whether Merck&#8217;s Fosamax destroys jaw bone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TRENTON, N.J. — A federal judge declared a mistrial Friday in the first trial over whether Merck &#038; Co.&#8217;s former blockbuster osteoporosis drug, Fosamax, causes painful jaw bone destruction.

Since Monday, jurors in the month-long trial in New York City had been telling the judge via a series of notes that they couldn&#8217;t reach a verdict, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finisar reports sharply higher fiscal 1st-quarter profit, helped by revenue from acquisition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Finisar Corp., a maker of fiber-optic subsystems and other data networking equipment, said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit rose sharply, helped by an acquisition and stronger sales.

Net income climbed to $26.0 million, or 2 cents per share, for the three months that ended Aug. 2. That compares with $2.8 million, or a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Poll: Public disapproval of Obama&#8217;s handling of health care rises to 52 percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Fram</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Public disapproval of President Barack Obama&#8217;s handling of health care has leaped to 52 percent, according to Associated Press-GfK poll that underscores the country&#8217;s glowering mood just as the White House revs up its pitch for an overhaul.

Just 42 percent approve of the president&#8217;s work on the high-profile health issue. The survey was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scotland frees terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds to die in Libya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Mcconville</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[EDINBURGH, Scotland — Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting the Libyan go home to die despite American pleas to show no mercy for the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people.

U.S. President Barack Obama declared the decision to release Abdel Baset al-Megrahi &#8220;a mistake,&#8221; and said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP source: Administration tripling work force to handle Cash for Clunkers claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Manning</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is tripling the number of workers processing Cash for Clunkers transactions as some dealers complain the government has been slow to reimburse them for the car incentives of up to $4,500 per vehicle.

An administration official said Monday the Transportation Department hoped to have 1,100 public and private sector workers processing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulators shut down Colonial BancGroup in biggest bank failure of this year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcy Gordon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Real estate lender Colonial BancGroup Inc. has been shut down by federal officials in the biggest U.S. bank failure this year.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which was appointed receiver of the Montgomery, Ala.-based Colonial and its about $25 billion in assets, said the failed bank&#8217;s 346 branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge says Medicare did not misapply rules that reimbursed Baxter&#8217;s drug Advate below costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marley Seaman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — A U.S. District Court judge ruled Friday that Baxter International Inc. is not entitled to a higher Medicare reimbursement price for its hemophilia drug Advate.

Baxter said Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement payments for Advate were less than the drug&#8217;s sale price, which passed the cost on to physicians and discouraged them from using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India moots tax reforms, Bill likely by end 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that India proposes to reform its archaic tax laws, phase out exemptions, simplify rules on corporate mergers and help improve compliance.

&#8220;You will find all the direct tax laws, fringe benefit tax, income tax all these have been brought under one umbrella single direct tax code. Second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Legislature issues apology for past persecution of Gold Rush-era Chinese immigrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Legislature didn&#8217;t let a weeks-long budget debate prevent it from unanimously apologizing for the state&#8217;s past persecution of the Chinese immigrants who built the state&#8217;s railroads, gold mines and agriculture industry.

The Senate earlier this month approved the resolution expressing regret for 19th Century and early 20th Century laws that &#8220;resulted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel to help Haryana farmers increase farm output</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHANDIGARH - Israel will set up two &#8220;centres of excellence&#8221; in Haryana on an outlay of Rs.15.7 crore to help farmers increase production of fruits and vegetables, the country&#8217;s ambassador to India Mark Sofer said here Tuesday.

Once the centres are operational, farmers will be introduced to the latest mechanised farming techniques developed in Israel. 	 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC calls for California IOUs to be regulated as securities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The recipients of billions of dollars in IOUs being issued by California soon may be able to sell them on a regulated market, following action taken Thursday by federal regulators.

Some of the nation&#8217;s largest banks say that, starting Friday, they will no longer accept the IOUs. The banks want to pressure the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Centre grants Rs 478.27 to rehabilitate Cyclone Aila victims  in West Bengal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - Centre has approved a package of 478.27 crore  rupees  from the National Calamity  Contingency  Fund  for rehabilitation of Aila cyclone victims in West Bengal.

Referring to the West Bengal&#8217;s demand of 520 crore rupees for the development  of housing and road sectors, Union Home  Minister  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kashmir, Maoism, gay status high on home minister&#8217;s agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday said that delegation of more responsibility to police in Jammu and Kashmir, tackling Maoist violence and resolving the legal status of gays will be high on his agenda.

Presenting the assessment of the implementation so far of the agenda for the first 100 days of the government, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public, not private money driving slow New Orleans downtown</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sayre</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS — A deal approved this week to fill up an empty skyscraper and keep the city&#8217;s pro football team raises the bill of taxpayer funded redevelopment projects in downtown New Orleans to $300 million.

And those projects are almost the sole source of rebuilding in the city that was devastated four years ago by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAF girls pay with their knickers for ride in jets</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/raf-girls-pay-with-their-knickers-for-ride-in-jets-85452/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - Pilots of the Royal Air Force have come up with a novel way of making their female passengers pay for their ride in a jet - by asking for their knickers in return as fare.

The panties, which are framed, can be seen adorning a whole wall of the Tornado pilots&#8217; bar, with some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge says bankrupt co-founder of exclusive Yellowstone Club has to sell personal assets</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/judge-says-bankrupt-co-founder-of-exclusive-yellowstone-club-has-to-sell-personal-assets-83589/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/judge-says-bankrupt-co-founder-of-exclusive-yellowstone-club-has-to-sell-personal-assets-83589/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BUTTE, Mont. — A bankruptcy judge has rejected Edra Blixseth&#8217;s bid to reorganize her finances, pushing the co-founder of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club into a forced sale of her many houses, cars and other properties.

Blixseth had appealed for more time to craft a business plan, hoping she could emerge from personal bankruptcy with her sizable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge calls sick pay ordinance unconstitutional for employees in Milwaukee</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/judge-calls-sick-pay-ordinance-unconstitutional-for-employees-in-milwaukee-80382/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/judge-calls-sick-pay-ordinance-unconstitutional-for-employees-in-milwaukee-80382/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE — A judge in Wisconsin has struck down an ordinance requiring private employers to pay sick days for all employees in the city of Milwaukee.

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Thomas Cooper said in a 38-page decision Friday that the ordinance approved by voters in November was unconstitutional.
The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, which objected to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pa. college denies gun backer&#8217;s rights violated, says rules for forming group were broken</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pa-college-denies-gun-backers-rights-violated-says-rules-for-forming-group-were-broken-69074/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pa-college-denies-gun-backers-rights-violated-says-rules-for-forming-group-were-broken-69074/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh-area college says it barred a student from publicizing a pro-gun group because she didn&#8217;t follow the proper channels.

The Community College of Allegheny County said Monday that it did not violate Christine Brashier&#8217;s (BRAH&#8217;-sheer) constitutional rights.
Brashier says she was barred from handing out fliers for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago City Council approves ban on sale of baby bottles with controversial chemical BPA</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/chicago-city-council-approves-ban-on-sale-of-baby-bottles-with-controversial-chemical-bpa-61964/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/chicago-city-council-approves-ban-on-sale-of-baby-bottles-with-controversial-chemical-bpa-61964/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 03:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — Chicago on Wednesday became the first U.S. city to adopt a ban on the sale of baby bottles and sippy cups containing the chemical BPA.

The Chicago City Council approved the ban on a 48-0 vote and a spokeswoman for Mayor Richard M. Daley said he intends to sign it. The ban is slated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank of America, Boeing, Macy&#8217;s, Symantec among big market movers Thursday</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/bank-of-america-boeing-macys-symantec-among-big-market-movers-thursday-56009/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/bank-of-america-boeing-macys-symantec-among-big-market-movers-thursday-56009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 04:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

NYSE
Bank of America Corp., up 82 cents at $13.51
Two analysts upgraded the bank ahead of the &#8220;stress test&#8221; results, saying it will be able to raise the capital regulators require.
Boeing Co., down 67 cents at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group of dissident Chrysler lenders reveals identities of members</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/group-of-dissident-chrysler-lenders-reveals-identities-of-members-55467/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/group-of-dissident-chrysler-lenders-reveals-identities-of-members-55467/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bree Fowler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The names of a handful of Chrysler debt holders who oppose the automaker&#8217;s Chapter 11 bankruptcy were disclosed Wednesday, but a number of others dropped their opposition, a week after President Barack Obama publicly chastised the group for not supporting his plan to help remake the company.

The names of the investment firms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Bank approves $500 mn loan for Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/world-bank-approves-500-mn-loan-for-pakistan-22304/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/world-bank-approves-500-mn-loan-for-pakistan-22304/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - The World Bank has approved a $500-million interest-free loan to help stablise Pakistan&#8217;s economy, Geo TV reported Friday.



&#8216;Pakistan has experienced severe external and internal shocks in the past year and is confronting a very difficult macro-economic situation,&#8217; the Washington-based World Bank said in a statement.


&#8216;The rise in international oil and food prices sharply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karzai approves Afghan presidential elections in August</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/karzai-approves-afghan-presidential-elections-in-august-15474/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/karzai-approves-afghan-presidential-elections-in-august-15474/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday approved a decision by the Election Commission to hold presidential polls in August, retracting his earlier decree ordering the vote next month.



Karzai had thrown the country into political turmoil last week by ordering the Election Commission, which had set balloting for Aug 20, to bring the balloting forward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government approves 1,412-km trans-Arunachal Pradesh highway</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/government-approves-1412-km-trans-arunachal-pradesh-highway-9269/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/government-approves-1412-km-trans-arunachal-pradesh-highway-9269/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - Arunachal Pradesh is all set to become more accessible with the government granting Rs.125 billion for constructing a 1,412 km trans-state highway and another 847 km of roads, a move that will also benefit several hydro-power projects in the state.



&#8216;The proposal would benefit all the 16 districts of Arunachal Pradesh and Sibsagar [...]]]></description>
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