The IIHS estimates that such roofs reduce the risk of serious and fatal injury in single-vehicle rollovers by about 50 percent compared with those that merely meet the federal minimum requirement for crush resistance.

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Republicans in Michigan's state assembly were so worried that a proposed ballot initiative would boost Democratic turnout that they dropped their resistance to the idea and passed their own law raising the minimum wage.

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Upshaw's insistence on a minimum 60% piece of the league's revenue pie for the players is meeting resistance, and for good reason.

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Anticipating resistance, his advisers are already working on a draft of the law on minimum service, so as to curb the effectiveness of strikes.

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Nothing But the Truth has garnered praise from playwright and activist Eve Ensler, MS Magazine editor Katherine Spillar, actor Peter Coyote, and many more influential people, but we encountered a great deal of resistance from the traditional publishers, some of whom told us that it would take at minimum 18 months to get the already edited book published.

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New Jersey joins Connecticut and New York this year in considering increases to the minimum wage an issue that has become central to many Democrats and organized labor, but has met resistance from Republicans and business groups.

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