Mr Daniels, in Indiana, has proposed a similar measure, although he opposes a move by the state legislature to allow employees in any unionised workplace to opt out of paying union dues, as Mr Walker also proposes, for fear it will spark a knock-down drag-out fight with the labour movement.

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Meanwhile, Jobs was experimenting at his new company, NeXT Computer, with the far-out ideas that would later spark a renaissance at Apple.

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Haye is expected to fight former two-time world heavyweight champion John Ruiz next and is confident of "knocking him spark out".

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That alone was enough to spark a number of theories on what was about to come out from the Palo Alto giant: a much-speculated Facebook phone?

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His first enterprise was to sell aeronautical spare parts out of the boot of a car, his second to strip the platinum points off the spark-plugs of Bristol Hercules engines.

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