Archives for December 2006
Marketing en Español
Published on 28 Dec 2006 at 6:14 pm.
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Heavy corporate hitters are avidly chasing burgeoning Latino buying power. They’re doing it in Spanish – which has some immigration foes and advocates of English-only restrictions pitching a fit. By Elizabeth Aguilera Denver Post Staff Writer As debate swirls over illegal immigration and assimilation, U.S. businesses are spending more than ever to engage Spanish-speaking consumers.
Baker sought to cover-up illegal trade with Saddam’s Iraq, Israeli charges
Published on 28 Dec 2006 at 7:53 am.
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Insightmag.com Former Secretary of State James Baker was involved in a cover-up of illegal trading by his law firm with the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, according to a former contractor who did work for Mr. Baker’s firm.
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Former President Gerald Ford Dies at 93
Published on 27 Dec 2006 at 7:46 am.
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By JEFF WILSON Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon‘s scandal- shattered White House as the 38th president and the only one never elected to nationwide office, has died. He was 93.
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Loss for one is another’s gain
Published on 23 Dec 2006 at 11:03 am.
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Applicants line up to fill jobs left empty by Swift plant raid By Fernando Quintero, Rocky Mountain News GREELEY – The line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. meat-processing plant earlier this week was out the door Thursday.
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Hispanic groups call for moratorium on work raids
Published on 23 Dec 2006 at 10:59 am.
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By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO, Texas - U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s.
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N.J. in danger of losing House seat
Published on 22 Dec 2006 at 11:45 am.
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Population falls out of nation’s top 10, a trend that would erase a congressman after 2010 BY ROBERT GEBELOFF Star-Ledger Staff Anemic population growth is likely to cost New Jersey one of its 13 seats in the House of Representatives, based on new Census Bureau estimates.
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Report Says Berger Hid Archive Documents
Published on 21 Dec 2006 at 8:11 am.
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By LARRY MARGASAK WASHINGTON- President Clinton’s national security adviser removed classified documents from the National Archives, hid them under a construction trailer and later tried to find the trash collector to retrieve them, the agency’s internal watchdog said Wednesday.
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More grief than relief from selling highways
Published on 21 Dec 2006 at 8:02 am.
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Courier News Opinion Sometime early in the new year, a plan to sell off New Jersey’s toll roads is expected to be introduced in the Legislature.
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Shared services can save county millions
Published on 19 Dec 2006 at 10:19 am.
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By JARED FLESHER Staff Writer Courier News If a penny saved is a penny earned, credit shared services in Somerset County with 1,950,000,000 pennies.
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Ferguson says he’s not slowed by congressional power shift
Published on 18 Dec 2006 at 8:27 am.
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By KARA L. RICHARDSON Staff Writer Courier News BRIDGEWATER — Rep. Michael Ferguson is ready to go to work, even if the circumstances he will be working under will be radically different from his first six years as a congressman.
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