Word: labors
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...have adopted the euro is expected to be 2.6% in 2006, an unusually strong showing for the continent. The European recovery is uneven, though, with Italy and France faring less well. And Germany has only begun to tackle some of the politically unpopular reforms of its health, pension and labor systems that economists say are needed to boost long-term growth. Still, "Europe is going to have a great year," reckons Harvard's Rogoff...
...Halutz's bypassing the defense minister was a sign of his disdain for Peretz, these sources said. Olmert shares the general's disdain for Labor Party leader Peretz, a former trade unionist and neophyte in security matters. The prime minister pointedly declared before choosing a new military chief, he would consult with retired and active generals - not with his defense minister...
...Peretz now stands to lose both his job as defense minister and his position as leader of the Labor Party, the main coalition partner of Olmert's Kadima party. Peretz, too, may choose to resign instead of waiting to be sacked. Most likely, says one Peretz aide, he will wait until after the official inquiry into the Lebanon debacle, the Winograd Commission, is completed next month. If the report blames Peretz, he will then resign or consent to be moved to a lesser cabinet post, his aides say. The defense portfolio would most likely go to one of Peretz...
...last several months, Obama, 45, has been making phone calls to prominent Democrats, meeting with labor activists, fundraisers and members of Congress and figuring out how to organize a presidential campaign staff. Last month he went to New Hampshire, where he was given a reception that veteran political observers there said was practically unprecedented, with tickets for a party fundraiser sold out days in advance. Now, having lined up several top-level Democrats to work for him, he is slated to announce his candidacy officially on Feb. 10 in Springfield, Ill., the hometown of Abraham Lincoln...
...built with Prime Minister Sharon you began to get a shift in Israeli politics from the center being for a greater Israel to Likud under Ariel Sharon in the famous Herzliya speech saying we have to divide the land. That's a big shift because it's not Labor saying we have to divide the land; it's Likud saying we have to divide the land, the father of the settlement movement...