The net effect, he predicts, will be that, in future, doctors simply refuse to set up practice in areas like his simply because of the economics.

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Connecticut's proposed law would make it a discriminatory practice to refuse to hire someone who is unemployed, including it in the same human-rights statutes that protect classes such as a gender and race.

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One common anticompetitive practice is to give retailers and restaurateurs free fridges or soda fountains if they refuse to sell soft drinks from rival firms.

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Instead, under a new code of practice, a list of male "complementary" bishops will be drawn up for clergy who refuse to work with female bishops.

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