The 2011 proposed rules would require chain restaurants with 20 or more locations, along with bakeries, grocery stores, convenience stores and coffee chains, to clearly post the calorie count for each item on their menus.

WSJ: FDA head says menu labeling 'thorny' issue

The convenience stores' ambitions in banking are now such a threat to yucho's payments business that some senior post-office officials count them, and not the banks, as their chief competition.

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If you open a read-on post in a new window, that will also count against the read-on meter.

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Online, I wrote for the Huffington Post, Crazy Sexy Life and more blogs than I can count.

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Gerrard Batten, UKIP MEP for London, said UKIP's performance on Thursday had "broken the psychological barrier with the electorate", as voters now believed a vote for UKIP could count in the first-past-the-post system.

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Multiple newspapers, including The Chicago Sun-Times and The New York Post, are reporting that sources in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences count Oprah Winfrey as the top candidate to host the 2012 Oscars next February.

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Bush won the White House after an unprecedented post-election battle in Florida, where he and rival Al Gore clashed over the count of thousands of disputed presidential ballots.

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After the count, temporary chief constable Jacqui Cheer confirmed to BBC Tees that she would be applying for the vacant post.

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