Each year NACE, a Bethlehem, Pa. non-profit group that links college career placement offices with employers, surveys its employer members about their hiring plans.

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Average starting salaries have risen 3.4% over the last year, according to a new report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), a non-profit group that links college career placement offices with employers.

FORBES: Starting Salaries Jump 3.4% For New Grads

The men, all arrested between December 9 and 24 under the Internal Security Act, were members of the Jemaah Islamiyah -- a clandestine Islamic Group with links to other Southeast Asian nations.

CNN: Leaders slam terror plotters

Most Iraqi Kurds blame Ansar al-Islam, an Afghan-trained group of Kurdish Islamists, which the Americans say has links to al-Qaeda, or Yemenis abetted by local Ansaris.

ECONOMIST: Iraq and the Kurds

So has the AAMA, another influential networking group to help develop Asia-Silicon Valley business links.

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The US government considers it a terrorist group, and says it has links with al-Qaeda.

BBC: Philippines troops clash with Abu Sayyaf - 12 dead

America regards one group of Filipino militants, Abu Sayyaf, with al-Qaeda links, as terrorists.

ECONOMIST: The Philippines�� southern insurgency

In May 2002 Riaz Basra was killed, and analysts believe that the group began to develop links with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.

BBC: Profile: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

Kaiser is a three-pronged system that links together an insurer, a group of hospitals, and a network of physicians that are affiliated with those hospitals.

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Four years ago, a group of Jews in and around Korsun-Shevchenkovsky created the Association of Small-Town Jewish Communities, which links 2, 500 Jews in 19 towns of central Ukraine.

ECONOMIST: The East European shtetl