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...whistle in a sport that lacks flow at the best of times. A rugby revival depends on convincing the top whistleblowers that a Test match isn't the time to show off their grasp of every obscure law in the book. You don't halt a Springsteen concert because the man sang...
...government's plan to require most public sector employees currently covered by "special regime" retirement schemes to work as much as 2.5 years before they qualify for full pensions. Thursday's strikes opposing that reform are anticipated to be the largest since 1995, when France ground to a halt for an entire month when the conservative government sought to ram through the same pension reform...
...number of farms in the U.S. has been shrinking for seven decades. But the rise of "lifestyle," or hobby, farms--typically about 30 acres (12 hectares) that produce little or no income--promises to halt the decline, say officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Largely because of hobby farms, whose numbers are growing 2% a year and now account for about half of all farms, the population of rural counties is up 12% since 1990--the first gain in such areas since the Depression...
...nearly 60-year-old conflict. "The devil is going to be in the detail," says an Arab official. "The gaps are going to be huge." Moreover, in talks with Rice in New York two weeks ago, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal complained that Israel's failure to halt the construction of West Bank settlements raised questions about its good faith going into negotiations. Addressing reporters later, he said that to prove Israel's seriousness about reaching a deal "there should be a moratorium" on settlements as well as construction on Israel's separation wall...
Three-quarters of the UC’s roughly $500,000 budget goes to weekly student group allotments, Petersen said. If the College were to halt all funding to the Council, student group support would eventually dry up as well...