This Republican party election ticket is part of the collection of Lincolniana donated by Alfred Whital Stern.

这张共和党的选举票是阿尔弗雷德·惠特·斯特恩捐赠的林肯收藏的一部分。

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Last Monday, the players, represented by their lawyers, refused to accept an agreement put forth by NBA Commissioner David Stern, who represents the league's team owners.

上周一，由律师代表的球员们拒绝接受代表联盟球队老板的NBA总裁大卫·斯特恩提出的一项协议。

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The eight top partners of Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) share an office, the Partners’ Room, sitting at two rows of antique desks, overlooked by a painting of the firm’s stern-faced founders.

布朗兄弟哈里曼银行的八位首席合作伙伴同处一间办公室，“伙伴会议室”，并就坐于两排古式的桌旁，头顶有一副绘出公司创建者严厉面孔的油画。

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Patek Phillippe -- founded in 1839 by two Polish immigrants and bought by the Stern family in 1832 -- produces around 50, 000 watches a year.

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It's still awarded annually--ice conditions permitting--by the Wisconsin Stern Steerers Association.

FORBES: Shiver Me Timbers

One fast-growing grassroots organisation is Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which links union members and non-union workers to campaign for better jobs, higher standards in education and, above all, health-care reform. (Any progress on this front under the Obama administration will be claimed as a success by both AFL-CIO and the breakaway coalition led by Mr Stern.) Moreover, grassroots union activism in several swing states helped Mr Obama to victory.

ECONOMIST: Unions