Word: unionism
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...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not unlike Vietnam, which in the '60s and '70s was a distraction from spying on the main enemy, the Soviet Union. Vietnam was a voracious maw that never stopped sucking in people and resources. And no matter how much the CIA threw into it, it never tipped the scales. It took the CIA at least a decade to put Vietnam behind...
Connecticut Last October a sharply divided state supreme court struck down a civil-union law that limited marriage to heterosexuals...
...just a few months, but that has not made its exports more competitive, since they have plunged along with global economic trade. The Czech Republic, arguably one of the most respectable governments in the region, has seen its prime minister resign right in the middle of its European Union presidency—what was a time to shine internationally has become a time for embarrassment as the Parliament looks for a new coalition leader...
...Consumers' Union, plenty of complaints are heard from ordinary individuals. "I don't think these collection agencies are turning away clients," says José Carlos Cutiño, a judicial adviser for the organization. "And the line that they walk between persuasion and threat - between legal and illegal - is very fine...
...legislation is intended to make that line clearer. Presented in a committee of the lower house of parliament by the Catalan party Convergence and Union on March 10, the bill is designed, according to spokesman Josep Sánchez y Llibre, "to protect citizens against those acts that attack their dignity or invade their privacy." It won the committee's unanimous support, a critical step toward becoming...