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WTO must adapt to new pacts to thaw talks-Mexico hopeful
ReutersMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization can break a deadlock in global trade talks if it adapts to a flurry of bilateral trade initiatives and overhauls itself, Mexico's finalist to head the body said on Friday. Herminio Blanco, a former...Tags: Globalization, National Government, International Organizations, Trade Agreements, Brazil
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Canada's consulate general talks up trade with Georgia
Savannah Morning News, Ga.Georgia companies need only look across a border, not an ocean, to find their top international trade partner. Canada and Georgia trade $9.6 billion in goods annually, with more than 325,000 jobs in the state tied to trade with our nation's northern...Tags: Economy, Contracts, Trade Dispute, U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Organization
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Philadelphia Daily News John Baer column
Philadelphia Daily NewsLATELY AND ironically, I'm wondering whether good government is bad for governing. I say lately because of that gun vote in Washington last week and coming votes in Harrisburg on transportation. I say ironically because I'm a drum major for good (or...Tags: Interior Policy, U.S. Congress, Elections, Personal Weapon Control, Primaries
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UTB-TSC readies for final commencement
The Brownsville Herald, TexasIn a mark of poignant symbolism, the final University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College May 11 commencement keynote speaker will be Hans Mark, who also gave a speech during the partnership's first ceremony celebrated 21 years ago....Tags: Colleges and Universities, Petroleum Industry, Company Privatization, Eddie Jr Lucio, Trade Agreements
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Bid to ban commercial trade in polar bears fails
An unusual coalition between the U.S. and Russia to win an international ban on commercial trade of polar bear parts failed Thursday. Meeting in Bangkok, delegates to the 176-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species voted down a U....
Tags: Hunting, Russia, Population, Endangered Species, Conservation
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Hugo Chavez: Admired and despised by readers
For just as many reasons readers found to sneer at Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died Tuesday after a lengthy battle with cancer, others found reasons to praise the late strongman. While several readers slammed Chavez for behaving like a dictator and...
Tags: Poverty, Trade Dispute, China, Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Hugo Chavez
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State of the union
In the State of the Union address, President Obama implied that his pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement will create jobs. I don't buy it. The legacy of past pacts on which the TPP is modeled has been job destruction, not job...Tags: Trade Policy, Imports, Trade Balance, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation
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Nebraska governor's tax plans face more resistance
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Tim Kelliher paid more than $19,000 in state income taxes in 2011, an amount that could vanish in future years, depending on what happens to Gov. Dave Heineman's two tax proposals. But on Feb. 7, the Kearney farm producer made his...Tags: Dave Heineman, Regional Authority, Personal Income, Taxation, Fertilizer
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Tour bus crash: Federal investigators looking at maintenance records
L.A. NOWFederal officials spent Tuesday scouring a San Diego-area bus company's office, interviewing the owner and taking maintenance records as part of their investigation into the tour bus crash on California 38 that killed seven and injured dozens more.... -
Tour bus crash: Residents smelled burning brakes, heard horn
L.A. NOWResidents of the San Bernardino Mountain community of Mountain Home Village heard a bus roar by Sunday night, its horn honking, and smelled burning brakes in its wake. Moments later, it would hit a car, fall on its side and...... -
Jan. 22 in History: Buildings engulfed in flames in Holtville
>> 50 Years Ago — They did not hold services in the Old First Christian in Holtville yesterday morning. And today, pupils at the Emmet S. Finley School were giving a day off. There is a good reason. All that remains of the 56-year-old church at...Tags: Trade Dispute, Economic Organization, Trade Agreements
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Tara Kolla, L.A's down-to-earth urban farmer
Tara Kolla was born in Inglewood but grew up in Europe. She came back to Los Angeles, to a half-acre Silver Lake plot, where she decided to try her hand at "urban farming." Her neighbors objected, so now she mostly works other people's land, and works...
Tags: Small Businesses, The Home Depot, Genetic Engineering, Coca-Cola Co., Peas
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