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...nuclear deal may give Singh and the Congress Party a chance to address some of those concerns by pursuing much needed economic reforms. Singh's allies on the left have generally allowed the Congress Party to set the agenda, but they opposed certain reforms that threatened their labor-union base, including a plan to liberalize the banking sector and changes to India's socialistic labor laws. Now that left-leaning lawmakers have bolted from the coalition, Singh, an economist, could find it easier to push reforms through - although his allies say they'll proceed with caution to avoid alienating...
...Already, more than 1,000 California motorists have been issued citations since the hands-free law went into effect, according to the California Highway Patrol. The base fine for the first offense in California is $20, and subsequent convictions are $50. With the addition of penalty assessments, the fines can more than triple...
...been decreed, the ax will fall on U.S. Sugar's 1,700 local jobs only in 2014 at the earliest. And that gives the town and Hendry County time to create an alternative economic plan. Although there's much talk of expanding the region's industrial, commercial and tourism base, Clewiston Mayor Mali Chamness, a resident since 1963, is adamant that the focus must remain on the land: "Agriculture - that is our option. We're a farming community. We want to stay a farming community." Sugar employees, and the local businesses they sustain, will leave town unless a similar economy...
...Municipality of Addis Band. After Italy's brief occupation ended in 1941 - Ethiopia is the only country in Africa that has never been colonized - the country began to open up to outside influences under Roosevelt's lend-lease program. Thanks to visiting teachers and a new American army base in Asmara, Glen Miller gained a lot of fans there. Then in the 60's, JFK's Peace Corps volunteers arrived carrying new vinyl and whole new generation's worth of attitude and beats...
...popular Afghan logic goes, the only conceivable reason the ISAF hasn't swept the Taliban from the country is that it doesn't want to. Some of the most conspiratorial argue that the U.S. wants instability in Afghanistan so it can continue to have an excuse to base troops in the country - and to use it as a base to launch an attack on Iran...