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  • He has scrapped a decades-old law enabling security forces to detain critics without trial, and began chipping away at the sprawling affirmative-action program while accelerating state-asset sales to loosen the government's hold over business.

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  • There is public documentation of more than 400 anti-Semitic and anti-Israel public statements made by government officials since the expulsion, including a call to action in a state-run newspaper urging Venezuelans to "challenge Jews" where they live and work.

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  • Ms. McCabe joins a boisterous coalition against fluoride that also includes Portland's NAACP branch, its Sierra Club chapter and a group of acupuncturists along with at least one out-of-state conservative political-action committee.

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  • Historically, virtually all of the major changes in the method of electing the President, including ending the requirement that only men who owned substantial property could vote and 48 current state-by-state winner-take-all laws, have come about by state legislative action.

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  • And according to a panel of experts gathered here Wednesday at a forum sponsored by the Federalist Society, the number of class-action cases filed in state courts has dropped off dramatically.

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  • The previous season he had hit 96 in the Pura Cup final win but either side of those high spots there were periods of less scintillating form, including seasons where he struggled for regular first-team action with his state side.

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  • What, you thought all the state-level action on health care was about suing to stop Obamacare?

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  • Her job is to co-ordinate action by local, state and national authorities and mobilise federal funds to tackle the city's social problems.

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  • It also set off a train of other initiatives that limited politicians' scope for action: three-quarters of the state's budget is now outside their control.

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  • The tariffs are a response to the pricing complaint, though a separate action will move forward regarding the state-support allegations.

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  • Los Angeles (CNN) -- The California State Teachers' Retirement System has filed a derivative action lawsuit against current and former Wal-Mart executives and board members for the firm's alleged bribery in Mexico and a subsequent corporate coverup, the system said Friday.

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  • With a successful test, Pyongyang could in effect proclaim itself invulnerable, above the law, a nuclear-weapon state immune from international action.

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  • In Uzbekistan, the State adopted an action plan for 2011-2015 to accelerate the implementation of the MDGs.

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  • As Congress delays action on extending the 2001-03 tax cuts, state revenue officers may be secretly hoping for continued legislative paralysis.

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  • The reported detention follows a warning on Saturday by Mr Mugabe's spokesman of state action against journalists for "mis-reporting" on the cholera outbreak.

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  • This state has filled an action against Illinois-based Watershed Development Corp.

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  • But that's what this film is -- the old Grimm folktale spruced up with state of the art visual effects and maximized battle action, coupled with a more playful, family-friendly approach than filmmakers took in "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" and "Snow White and the Huntsman".

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  • And he publicly threatened criminal action to force Merrill into a civil settlement--despite state ethics rules that forbid this kind of leverage.

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  • Lee Kye Sik, the president's man in charge of reforming the government and privatising state-owned firms, fears strong action may not be possible until South Koreans face the abyss.

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  • Indirect purchasers who in many cases actually paid the inflated prices are left to sue in state court, where the class-action attorneys have developed a specialized practice to extract an extra layer of revenue from this litigation.

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  • BJP-ruled state, and its failure to take action against Narendra Modi, Gujarat's chief minister, whose government was accused of complicity in the violence.

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  • Warne is back in action for his state side Victoria this week after a three-week break following the Test series win over South Africa.

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  • Three years later the siblings of Julia Margaret Siverls, a ccny professor, filed a wrongful death action in New York state court, charging that their 41-year-old sister "was drugged and killed by the Dahn Hak cult" during a training retreat in Sedona.

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  • The class-action lawyers' own discovery, mixed with forthcoming findings from state and national regulators, should put major investments banks back at the bargaining table.

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  • The first predator he met was the Zambian government: the estates had not been paying their bills for two years, but the electricity and telephone companies, being fellow state-owned organisations, had not taken any action.

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  • The Apple class-action party continues folks, this time featuring a disgruntled New York State customer named Herbert H.

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  • Worse yet, privacy groups also point out that the bill would preclude any state-level legislation and would restrict privacy class-action lawsuits.

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  • Pledges by democratic states to respond promptly and forcefully to any violation of an arms control arrangement with a non-democratic state have often proven hollow when the time for action came.

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