Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, a liberal advocacy group in Washington, says 90% of tax dollars allocated to create jobs are wasted on companies that would have made the same decision regardless.

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Good, solid baseball gets you the first group, but you need to market some personalities and star power to get the second.

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She said she would recommend all European countries introduced the single embryo transfer as standard for women in this group - under 36, in their first or second cycles who have good quality embryos.

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There was some good news from the health care products group Johnson and Johnson, which reported 14% jump in first-quarter earnings.

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Some of you know my first job in Chicago was working with a group of Catholic churches that often did more good for the people in their communities than any government program could.

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"This is the first good decision we've seen from Shell, " said Mike le Vine of Oceana, a group which focuses on ocean conservation.

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Ms Barton said she was particularly pleased with last year's results because of when they first arrived in the school, only 55% that year group had been predicted to achieve good GCSE grades.

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