Word: unionizers
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...other side of the Atlantic, European Union governments have spurned entreaties to let funds flow into their staggering economies. "Europe has done what it needed to do," says Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who is also chairman of the 16-member euro zone, adding that the U.S.'s appeals "were not to our liking...
...unfair to blame Germany for holding everyone back," says Elmar Brok, a German member of the European Parliament with Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union. "We are already doing a lot at home, both federally and at state level. And we are doing it differently to the U.S., because we have made a lot of bank guarantees. But we also need to think about repaying our debts. Who will do it? The next generation...
...Texas secedes from the Union, Chuck Norris has declared his interest in becoming Texas' first president...
...with my baby; I'm that scared, in case I meet people with drugs." Her startling conclusion: "I would rather have lived in those days when it was the Troubles." Too young to remember firsthand the horrors inflicted in the name of a reunited Ireland - or of preserving the Union - she knows the paramilitaries used to mete out summary justice to the kinds of petty criminals and thugs who scare her. Social deprivation has always been the best recruiting sergeant for terrorism...
...huge political impact," says philosopher Fernando Savater, who in 2007 founded the centrist Union for Progress and Democracy party in an attempt to forge a third way between the two major parties. "Both the government and the opposition managed the attacks in partisan terms...