We'd entered our dramatic Grayrigg Rail Crash re-union, where the family of the woman who died met up with the man who should have checked the points that led to the fatal derailment.
In 1866, Tennessee became the first seceding state to be re-admitted to the Union.
Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war.
Helmut Kohl, Germany 's chancellor, suffered a setback in his campaign for re-election when his Christian Democratic Union was humiliated in a state election in Saxony-Anhalt.
According to European Union rules the airline must re-route the passenger and pay 150 euros for flights up to 3, 500km - 75 euros if the delay to the passenger is less than two hours.
The decision dismayed the JRFU while the Asian Rugby Football Union asked the IRB to stage a re-run of the vote.
Mr Papandreou wants to avoid direct confrontation with his trade union supporters, but the need to re-establish fiscal credibility ought to have come first.
Friday, he will head to Chicago to continue his campaign for the main proposals of the State of the Union address, which emphasized themes of his re-election campaign last year, including equal opportunity and middle-class growth.
And he wants to re-create Keynes's 1944 plans for an International Monetary Clearing Union.
The union claims construction companies plan to dismiss staff and re-employ them on new contracts with lower wages.
Strengthening the economy and creating jobs were key concerns for President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address late Tuesday, the first since his re-election.
The newly independent states around the Caspian have been hard hit by the break-up of the Soviet Union, and they're anxious to bring their reserves onto world markets as quickly as possible.
The union Unison said it wanted the council to withdraw the new conditions and re-negotiate.
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The union Unison says the council is planning to dismiss 9, 941 workers and re-employ them on revised terms.
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The Welsh Rugby Union said it clearly stated on each ticket that they are not to be re-sold above face value.
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Hollings, 76, is up for re-election this year in what has become one of the most reliably Republican states in the Union.
President Obama will have to consult union chiefs as he governs--unless he harbors no ambition to be re-elected four years from now.
The plans, which are being put before the Rugby Football Union Council, call for National One to be cut to 12 teams and re-named 'the Championship'.
"When we ask for ID and the name of the person the money is being sent to, customers say we're hassling them because Western Union doesn't ask for all that, "says Moreno-Linares.
Mr Lukashenka has also sabotaged the customs union with Kazakhstan and Russia, demanding that Russia scrap its export duty on oil and oil products, which would allow Belarus to buy them at Russia's domestic prices and to re-export them at a profit. (Russia wants to keep oil out of the union for now.) Russia's response is to reach for its favourite weapon: the gas taps.
Since the end of the Soviet Union, Russia has had only three presidents, including Medvedev, now up for re-election if he chooses to run.
Mr Gove has written to the union leaders saying he would meet them for talks but that there would be no re-negotiation of planned changes to teachers' pay and pensions.
Nevertheless, Labour modernisation continued apace, with the party making peace with the UK's membership of the European Union, the market economy, ditching unilateralism and moving away from firm commitments on re-nationalisation.
The city sent letters home with students at those schools saying the union was making it difficult to replace bad teachers, explaining that it intends to re-hire a "significant portion" of the school's staff.
The AFL-CIO's representative on the Obama transition team for Labor is Deborah Greenfield, and we're told her first inspection stop was the Office of Labor-Management Standards, or OLMS, which monitors union compliance with federal law.
While Democrats haven't recruited a strong challenger for Walker in his re-election campaign, the party's playbook is clear: castigate Walker for his efforts to curb union influence and tag him as someone eyeing a presidential campaign.
The latest news coming out of the European Union summit meeting in Brussels is that all but a few of the EU members have agreed to re-write some treaty rules to bolster the EU financial sector.
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