Word: districts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...everyone agreed, however, that it was such a minor snafu. At polling station No. 65 in Baghdad's Karada district, volunteer observer Hafa'a Latif said the number of people who were turned away could call the vote into question...
...District Judge Nancy Gertner agreed to allow the hearing to be broadcast online, but the RIAA appealed Gertner’s decision, claiming that broadcasting the hearing could selectively favor Nesson’s arguments...
...recession is when your neighbor loses his job, the saying goes; a depression is when you lose yours. That line is shifting under the feet of countless Americans. In December, for the first time on record, unemployment rose in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. On Jan. 26, U.S. firms announced more than 70,000 layoffs, then came back the next day with thousands more. Michigan's jobless rate is in the double digits, and it may soon have company...
...small room in South Tehran's Shahre-Rey district, 12 women of all ages are gathered around a long table, listening intently and taking notes while their health trainer talks animatedly to them about the thyroid. The women will leave this class today and knock on as many as 50 doors to tell the families under their care about the necessity of using iodized salt to prevent developmental problems in children--an especially important lesson in these poorer parts, where seafood is rarely eaten...
...chador-clad volunteer says she talks to women wherever she finds them, while shopping for vegetables or at the bakery. Fatemeh Rezai, 38, standing in front of four large file cabinets with detailed health information on each household in her district, says she is proud of the work she does, "especially after hearing our Health Minister say that life expectancy in Iran has gone up from 57 to 73 in just a few decades...