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Chicago museums reeling after building sprees
The turn of the millennium was a heady time for many Chicago cultural institutions. Cheap loans, high investment returns and swelling endowments spawned a slew of new attractions along the lakefront and around downtown. The Art Institute built its Modern...
Tags: Renovation, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Financial Markets, Economy, Business and Finance, Pension and Welfare
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Palestinians protest in support of striking prisoners
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinians demonstrated throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem on Friday demanding the release of four prisoners on a hunger strike in Israeli jails. Israeli officials say the Palestinian prisoners are militants accused...
Tags: West Bank, Islam, Prisons, Labor Disputes, Religion and Belief
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Clerks at L.A., Long Beach ports finally ratify labor accord
Members of a small clerks union said Thursday they had agreed to a contract with employers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, taking the potential for fresh strikes at the busy harbors off the table. Representatives for both sides released a...
Tags: Employment, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Career and Workplace, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Employment Opportunities
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Palestinians protest detention of hunger strikers by Israel
RAMALLAH, West Bank –- Amid increasingly volatile protests around the West Bank, Palestinian and international leaders are pressuring Israel to release four Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strikes for several months in protest...
Tags: Tony Blair, Prisons, European Union, Government, Career and Workplace
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Coalition protests Joint Strike Fighter workshop
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterAllegations of unequal treatment and biases on behalf of the Navy are being raised by the group advocating homebasing the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter Squadron in El Centro. Imperial Valley United for Joint Strike Fighter, also known as the Joint...Tags: Labor Disputes, Career and Workplace, Armed Forces
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Supreme Court to consider eliminating political contribution limit
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has agreed to go beyond its controversial Citizens United decision and consider striking down the limit on the total amount that wealthy persons may give to candidates and political parties. The justices voted to hear...
Tags: Elections, U.S. Congress, Politics, Political Fundraising, Federal Election Commission
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Congratulations to re-elected Armenian president spark Burbank hunger strike
Ara Manoogian hadn’t eaten for nine days as of Monday, and he was prepared to go without food for weeks, or even months, more. Camped in an RV parked outside Rep. Adam Schiff’s Burbank office, Manoogian said his hunger strike was in protest...
Tags: Barack Obama, Human Rights, Adam B. Schiff, Career and Workplace, Elections
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'Tonight Show' leaving Burbank; mayor threatens hunger strike?
L.A. NOWBurbank is not just sitting back and letting NBC move its signature tourist attraction back to New York City after 40 years. It’s fighting back. “I am going on a hunger strike,” Burbank Mayor Dave Golonski said this afternoon. “I... -
America's Rifle: Rise Of The AR-15
The Hartford CourantWhen his son turned 14 a year ago, Jonathan Hardy bought the teen a gift that was both a coming-of-age badge and a hot item: an AR-15 rifle. To Hardy, the matte-black weapon is not a dangerous assault rifle. His son's model shoots the same small, low-...Tags: Newtown, U.S. Congress, Iraq, Economy, Business and Finance, Bankruptcy
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Burbank mayor on possible 'Tonight Show' move: "I am going on an hunger strike"
Burbank is not just sitting back and letting NBC move its signature tourist attraction back to New York City after 40 years. It’s fighting back. “I am going on an hunger strike,” Burbank Mayor Dave Golonski said this afternoon. “...Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Career and Workplace, NBC (tv network), New York City
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Ernest B. Crofoot, labor organizer
Ernest B. Crofoot, a former labor organizer who later headed Council 67 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, died Friday of complications from cancer at his Annapolis home. He was 88.
"Ernie was one hell of a trade...Tags: Religion and Belief, United Auto Workers, Government, Unions, Career and Workplace
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Palestinian hunger striker released by Israel
RAMALLAH, West Bank – A Palestinian from the West Bank who has been on a hunger strike in Israeli jails since July 1 was released Sunday under an agreement to resettle in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian officials. Ayman Sharawna, 36, a...
Tags: West Bank, Gaza Strip, Prisons, Hamas, Israel
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