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Mitt Romney follows President Obama to Ohio with a different vision
LORAIN, Ohio — Eager to show conservative Republicans that he's ready to take the fight to President Obama, Mitt Romney campaigned Thursday at a dusty drywall factory shuttered when George W. Bush was president — making the case that Obama's...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Career and Workplace, John Kasich, Republican Party, Employment
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Miguel de la Madrid dies at 77; former president of Mexico
MEXICO CITY —Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, who led the country amid economic meltdown and natural disaster in the 1980s but laid the groundwork for freer markets and political opening, has died. He was 77.
De la Madrid died Sunday...Tags: Treaties, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Respiratory Disease, Felipe Calderon, Trade Dispute
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Money laundering, tax evasion suck billions from Mexican economy
World NowThe Mexican economy is "hemorrhaging" billions of dollars annually because of money laundering, tax evasion and other corruption, a new study has found.... -
Cognac sales hit record highs in 2011
Despite a lagging economy and a debt crisis in Europe, global sales of cognac hit record highs in 2011, industry body Bureau National Interprofessional du Cognac (BNIC) announced Saturday.
The brandy sold at a rate of more than five bottles per second...Tags: Trade Dispute, Trade Agreements, Anheuser-Busch, Economic Organization, Matt Stevens
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Santorum is big labor? Pa. union leaders say 'ridiculous'
The Morning CallAs Rick Santorum's poll numbers rise, so do the Mitt Romney attacks. This week the Romney campaign, directly and through surrogates, have attacked Rick Santorum as “big labor’s favorite senator.” But that’s not how Pennsylvania...Tags: Career and Workplace, AFL-CIO, Labor Legislation, Trade Dispute, Trade Agreements
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'Hatfields & McCoys' makes ratings history for History Channel
Zap2itThe History Channel miniseries "Hatfields & McCoys" scored huge ratings Monday night (May 28), drawing the channel's biggest audience ever and one of the biggest in the history of cable TV. Part one of the three-night miniseries, which chronicles the...Tags: Entertainment, TNT (tv network), Mare Winningham, Jena Malone, America's Got Talent (tv program)
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Accreditation bolsters CETYS' institutional efficacy
Staff Writer, Copy EditorWhile the North American Free Trade Agreement was being bandied about in the early ’90s, officials with CETYS began to look at what the Baja California-based university could do to further standardize higher education, a university official said....Tags: Science and Technology, Treaties, Teaching and Learning, Trade Dispute, Trade Agreements
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U.S.-Colombia free trade pact starts, spurring business
The long-touted U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement takes effect Tuesday and South Florida companies are already gearing up to boost business with a country that is currently the state's No. 2 trade partner. Exporters are especially bullish because the...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, JetBlue Airways, Dominican Republic, Alvaro Uribe, Heavy Engineering
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Drought sparks water dispute with Texas, Mexico
McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Melted snow providing water for irrigation had barely begun burbling down a bone-dry Rio Grande toward a thin 4-mile-wide strip of farmland straddling the U.S.-Mexico border when a war of words erupted. Mexico wanted a...Tags: Trade Agreements, Droughts, Trade Dispute, Natural Disasters, Economic Organization
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Fiscal woes long time in the making
A generation ago, Texas billionaire Ross Perot rode onto the political scene armed with flip charts that graphically demonstrated the danger the nation faced because of runaway federal spending and a huge and growing national debt. Perot used his own...Tags: Pakistan, Republican Party, Politics, Parties and Movements, Bill Clinton
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“The Undefeated” director Stephen K. Bannon talks Sarah Palin, “Game Change”
Channel Guide MagazineBy Stacey Harrison For the most part, my conversation with Stephen K. Bannon is civil and friendly. This might surprise folks who expect the director of the unabashedly pro-Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated — which airs on ReelzChannel Sunday... -
Manufacturing an economic myth
Barack Obama and Rick Santorum probably couldn't agree that August falls in summer, but on one important issue they are closer than the Winklevoss twins. Both regard manufacturing as precious beyond words, and both think the federal government should be...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Companies and Corporations, Trade Dispute, Trade Agreements, Economic Organization
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