Word: recessions
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...national coalition including the country's two largest pro-choice groups, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood, launched ads in Rhode Island, Maine and on national cable last week. NARAL has launched a grassroots campaign among 27 affiliates around the country timed for the Senate's Thanksgiving recess that will target members by requesting meetings, writing letters to editors and circulating petitions...
Interviews with six of the more than 13 Iraqi attorneys defending Saddam and his lieutenants reveal a constant backdrop of threatened violence as they try to perform basic legal tasks like deposing witnesses, reviewing documents and preparing their clients for the trial, which resumes next week after a recess of almost five weeks. At best, the lawyers say, they face a logistical nightmare when visiting the U.S.-run prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad, where high-ranking members of the former regime are being held. At worst, they fear that every trip home from the office could...
Harvard’s janitors will also receive several days of vacation during the winter recess or an equal amount of time off at another point during the year and six to twelve sick days, depending on seniority...
...goal is that by winter recess there will be a kind of collection of final reports that will be gathered together and presented,” he said...
...played a key part. Throughout the recess, China kept the talks alive with bilateral meetings, pushing draft proposals on Pyongyang. But when the delegates returned on Sept. 13, North Korea's demand for a reactor remained unchanged. For the U.S., North Korea's position had less to do with energy needs?its power grid is in a shambles?than scoring political points. But with Hill ready to pack his bags, the Chinese came up with a fifth draft proposal: a delicately-worded compromise that raised the possibility that North Korea could have its trophy reactor at some point, while committing...