Word: cio
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...those in the survey like the fact that he doesn't belong to one of Peru's traditional and often notoriously corrupt political parties. Corruption is the hottest button for Latin voters, and it is biting pols to the left as well, especially Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose re-election prospects next October look dimmer with his party mired in a campaign-finance scandal. Latin American political experts say Bush should focus on rewarding clean government rather than raising the ideological temperature. His recent selection of Thomas Shannon as the new Assistant Secretary of State...
...billion worth of cameras and sensors along the border. A more lenient bipartisan plan from Arizona's John McCain and Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy would allow illegal immigrants to apply for "guest worker" status without returning home first. That bill is backed by many Democrats, but the AFL-CIO is withholding support...
Some see imagination; others see ego. Either way, Andrew Stern's vision for a more aggressive labor movement persuaded his union, the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers, together representing 4.6 million workers, to split from the AFL-CIO. TIME's Joseph R. Szczesny asks the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) chief to explain the bitter divorce...
...still expect to have a political partnership with the AFL-CIO. No union has been more active in politics than the SEIU. We had 2,000 members leave their homes [to campaign] in the last election and 50,000 volunteer to make phone calls...
...This is a huge story. The Service Employees and the Teamsters want to leave the AFL-CIO. This is the biggest setback to American workers since the nation of India." --JAY LENO...