Leaders of the South Africa's opposition political parties, labor unions and health-care professions praised President Zuma for launching an ambitious program to test 15 million South Africans for the HIV/AIDS virus by June of next year.

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The credit unions are even smaller, $748 billion -so it's less than $1 trillion in credit unions.

信用合作社就更小了,7480亿美元,还不到1万亿美元

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I don't have the latest data -this is from 1998 -but there were 11,000 credit unions -that's the number of credit unions in the United States in 1998 -and there were only 9,000 commercial banks; that's the number of banks.

我手上没有最新的数据,这个是1998年的,共有11000个信用合作社,这是1998年全美信用合作社的数量,与此同时,商业银行只有9000家,这是银行的数量

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Tim Phillips, the boss of Americans for Prosperity, a small-government pressure group, says that he and his colleagues encountered enthusiastic crowds everywhere they went during a 12-city tour of Wisconsin in support of the proposed checks on the state's public-sector unions.

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GMB, one of the country's largest unions--with 600, 000 members embedded in all parts of the economy, from manufacturing to retail--has declared war on private equity.

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Daniel DiSalvo, the author of an excellent essay on America's public-sector unions in National Affairs, points out that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees was the biggest contributor to political campaigns in 1989-2004.

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