On Monday, the government agreed to allow garment workers to form trade unions without permission from factory owners.

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Its Turkey Twizzlers came under fire from healthy-eating advocate and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver as part of his campaign to improve school lunches, and allegations have also recently emerged that factory workers played a form of baseball with live birds.

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In fact, many of us are investing in the most private form of "between" there is: the oxytocin factory known as romantic intimacy.

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The combination of tepid earnings reports received last week and once again mixed economic data in the form of the October Employment Report and weaker than expected factory orders for October resulted in mixed returns for the stock market last week.

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The concerts form part of the Island 50 festival, which includes a photographic exhibition at The Vinyl Factory in London's Soho and the publication of Keep On Running: The Story of Island Records.

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Made largely outside Japan (this one was put together in a factory in Malaysia) they are mechanical watchmaking in, in some respects, its purest form.

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It was the first time factory orders had fallen for four consecutive months since the government began assembling the data in its current form in 1992, the Commerce Department said.

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