More tellingly they note that, within California itself, counties that make greater use of three-strikes sentencing show worse crime rates than those that do not.
Indeed, Vincent Schiraldi and Geri Silva, two critics of the three-strikes law, calculate that crime fell 11% more in the 24 states without such a law.
Services by First North Western were left in tatters on Tuesday after union members began the first of three one-day strikes.
Up to 800 staff at 2 Sisters Food Group are staging what they say is the first of three 24-hour strikes.
Unions are planning three separate five-day strikes in February and March.
Premiums are also way, way up--in excess of two and three dollars--at the August 95.0 and 100 strikes, where volume in excess of 1, 350 circulated in early trading.
But public opinion is distinctly dovish: three-quarters of Americans think Iran is building a bomb, but two-thirds nonetheless oppose military strikes.
The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings.
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Pitching on five days' rest, Pettitte walked four for the first time since July 2010, went to seven three-ball counts and threw just 57 of 100 pitches for strikes.
It all started back in 1997 when he gave the three original films - Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983) - a bit of a makeover.
Ground crews and in-flight attendants announced 15 days of strikes, during three weeks Monday to Friday, starting Monday.
Three strikes in less than a year have interrupted the just-in-time supply chains on which modern car plants rely.
Harvey said he wasn't happy with the number of balls he threw in his last outing - when he gave up a run and three hits in 2 2-3 innings - so he focused on throwing more strikes Thursday and relying on some help from his teammates.
Three of the biggest unions are now co-ordinating plans for a series of national strikes in local government.
After all, this outcome was made virtually inevitable by the Europeans' unwillingness over the past week to implement or enforce what the United States hoped would be the three basic pillars of allied action -- the lifting of the arms embargo against Bosnian Muslims, air strikes and a total shut-down of the Danube and other essential supply lines for the Serbian war machine and economy.
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Three strikes in three minutes downed the Toffees as Roberto Martinez's team move into the last four -- their best ever performance in the historic English cup competition.
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