Officials also called for local health bosses to ensure peer support schemes where mothers encourage new parents to breastfeed are set up.

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Since legally the bosses only need the support of one union, Mrs Aubry, in theory, has no choice but to approve the accord.

ECONOMIST: France

At the same time, Mr Duhalde needs to retain the support of his fellow Peronists, and of other political bosses, such as Raul Alfonsin of the opposition Radicals, who has backed the measures.

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He had five meetings with Mr Mittal's companies and suggested to his bosses at the Foreign Office that Mr Blair should support this British bid.

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For decades, argues Mil Duncan, another of the many sociologists to have pondered Appalachian poverty, coal bosses exerted an unhealthy influence, and politicians won support through patronage.

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Bosses, too, who become enamoured of the iPhone will be insisting the firm support it.

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