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Obama, Barack •enthusiasm for phrase "hit the ground running" of •enthusiasm for phrase "there is only one President at a time" of •record for number of press conferences held by a President-elect is broken by with eight weeks...
...workers because of slowing production. According to participants and eyewitnesses to what followed, a large group of the workers gathered in the front courtyard of the factory demanding to know what compensation they would receive. At first, a company manager told them that anyone with a good work record and less than five years' service would receive less than 10,000 RMB - less than $1,500 at today's exchange rates. Anyone with a good record and more than seven years on the line would get 12,300 RMB, or about...
...Some U.N. police are reluctant to speak on the record butprivately agree with Wilson's claims. Senior officers acknowledge some shortcomings but remain confident the force will be able to handle security duties. "This is a very young police service," says acting U.N. East Timor Police Commissioner Juan Carlos Arevalo Linares. "We cannot expect to have a police service like Australia's when this country has only had a police service for a little more than six years...
...that the media so often neglect them as if they were not humans, and imply instead that the Europeans were the first to walk and talk in America? Just because the Indians did not write with Latin letters does not mean they should be omitted from the record. Douglas Eivind Hall, FUENGIROLA, SPAIN...
...majority of Thai people nor universal democratic values. Their mission is to erase from government any influence of billionaire populist Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed as Prime Minister in a 2006 army coup. Although the telecom tycoon is beloved by many poor Thais who once gave him a record electoral mandate, the urban middle class, which forms the bedrock of the PAD, accuses Thaksin of being a power-hungry strongman. In October, the former P.M. was sentenced in absentia to two years' imprisonment for a conflict of interest conviction. Several other corruption cases against him are working through the Thai...