They paid handsomely for a public-relations campaign that insistently denied any proof of a causal connection between smoking and cancer.

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They are therefore low-wage jobs: we have absolute proof that they are low-wage jobs because people are currently being paid low wages to do them.

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Even though the burden of proof is on Anadarko, BP wants to avoid a long period of not getting paid in the hope it'll eventually be exonerated through arbitration or the courts.

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Despite a veto-proof majority of council members supporting a bill to require city employers to provide workers with paid sick days, Ms. Quinn had blocked the measure from coming to the floor for years.

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The Afghan government is almost entirely paid for by foreign donors, many of whom have threatened to pull or curtail financing if they do not see proof that the Karzai administration is assuring that funds reach Afghan citizens as intended.

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