But proponents of the agreements say they can help prevent turmoil at a corporation and the loss of thousands of jobs for innocent employees.

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"The United States will always do anything and everything that it can to help innocent people who are suffering, " Rice said said at a joint news conference with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

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