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...Daily wage for an opium laborer in Afghanistan, twice the average pay for an unskilled worker in the country
...reputation of the Bush administration: not as a strong and capable wager of the war on terror, but as a dishonorable rule-breaker that chooses to deceive the entire country and jeopardize the seriousness of America’s signatory status to the Geneva Conventions in order to wage a wrong-headed war against the wrong country...
...rather than abroad. He would give a credit on payroll taxes, varying according to company size and number of hires. He says he would expand an assistance program intended for manufacturing workers to service-sector employees whose jobs have moved abroad. Kerry wants to increase the minimum wage to $7 an hour...
...owned 72,000 shares valued at about $3.87 million in an oil company named PetroChina—almost wholly owned by the Chinese government—which is participating in a joint-venture with the Sudanese government, in effect providing that regime with cash that has been used to wage a brutal war on its own people...
...last week's debate in Tempe, Ariz., it was ladies' night. George W. Bush traded in his scowl for a disciplined smile that analysts said was meant to seem less angry to female voters. John Kerry vowed that his minimum-wage proposal would help "9.2 million women who are trying to raise their families." Moderator Bob Schieffer ended the debate by asking what these husbands, each the father of two daughters, had learned from the "strong women" in their lives...