By comparison, the old Soviet Union had just two cops per 1, 000 civilians.

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To investigate this possibility, this year we gave half of those surveyed just two choices on their assessment of union impact, positive or negative (as opposed to the five nuanced options for other respondents).

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But Rand's life-long crusade--defeating socialism--which appeared within grasp just two decades ago when the Soviet Union collapsed, now seems to have regressed to the 1930s, when FDR used the economic meltdown to massively intervene in private industry.

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Three years later, roughly the same proportion of civil-union couples and married couples had split but just two of the 13 same-sex couples had legally terminated their civil union.

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The call for stricter enforcement comes after only five EU members took any action against Apple for openly flouting the Union's Warranty laws -- and just two (Italy and Bulgaria) imposed any financial penalties.

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The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings.

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The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings (nyse: AXL - news - people ).

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Just inside them are the town barracks, built to defend the town in 1717, 10 years after the Act of Union which formally ended Scots independence - but crucially just two years after the Jacobite Rising of 1715.

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But given the backlash that closures cause there, their first factory-sharing may come elsewhere: just before the Paris show a French union official let slip that the two firms were looking at building cars together in Brazil.

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Two years ago, we added an Oxford Union debate into the program, just to keep things exciting.

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This is to decide the fate of the country--the union--which will last thousands of years, let us hope, not just two or three years and then fall apart.

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