The United Nations Security Council held a four-hour emergency meeting early Sunday on the situation, ending with a call for an immediate halt to violence.

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The Senate plan, to be unveiled on Wednesday by Democratic Senator Patty Murray, is expected to call for new tax revenues through ending certain tax loopholes and other tax benefits to the wealthy.

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She welcomed the fact that call costs were to be reduced by ending the use of 0845 numbers later in the year.

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Using a subset of 66 countries for which there are more detailed figures, the authors show that share prices rose by more than 10% in real terms in the two years before what they call a bonanza, then fell relentlessly for four years, ending below where they started.

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I'm happy to say that this particular story has a positive ending, as I turned the phone over to see if I would need to call BlackBerry HQ in a panic.

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It gives players union head DeMaurice Smith the opportunity to now call out over the battle lines to the owners and the league and discuss ending this dispute from a position of strength, even if he now gives in to some of the concessions that ownership wants.

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