• Chandler jettisoned the anti-union dogma and set about building a west-coast rival to the New York Times.

    ECONOMIST: American newspapers

  • Sergio Cofferati, head of Italy's biggest trade-union federation, is not dead set against part-time work and short-term contracts.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of Italy

  • In January 1994 the then Transport Secretary, John MacGregor, told MPs that Union Railways - the company set up to construct the Channel Tunnel link - had concluded that "St Pancras is preferable to King's Cross as the terminus on environmental, operational and commercial grounds".

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  • Yet the commission has a special place in the Union's institutional set-up.

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  • Within the union, the Treasury paper basically says the current set-up for Scotland makes sense, for the same reasons that a currency union between Austria and Germany makes sense - though I should say they never make the comparison.

    BBC: Scotland: Treasury wants a pound for a pound

  • Despite a 1991 European Union directive which set targets for inter-operability between national rail systems, little progress has been made.

    ECONOMIST: Face value

  • The 3% deficit target is also one set by the European Union - but most of the major euro nations are in breach.

    BBC: France to miss deficit target, President Hollande says

  • Mr Powell has also supported the European Union's plans to set up a European rapid-reaction force.

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  • The SurreySave Credit Union was set up to offer an alternative to high-cost lenders and loan sharks.

    BBC: Surrey credit union membership tops 470 in first year

  • The nationalist Convergence and Union (CiU) coalition is set to oust a Socialist-led coalition from power.

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  • It was one-way traffic after the break and rugby-union bound Ashton also crossed from long range after being set free by Harrison Hansen.

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  • By origin, his Union partners are Christian Democrats, keen on a decentralised set-up for Spain not because they want to wave the Catalan flag but because they believe in subsidiarity, decision-making at the lowest appropriate level.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of Spain

  • Mr Bush has often used set pieces like the state-of-the-union to shape debate.

    ECONOMIST: The state-of-the-union address

  • President Obama is soon to make one of the big set piece speeches of the year - the State of the Union.

    BBC: Barack Obama's State of the Union: Spin and the speech

  • The fate of health care in the U.S. Senate will set the passage odds for cap-and-trade and union card check next year.

    FORBES: Democrats Checkmate Themselves

  • Representatives of Amicus, a big British finance-sector union, were this week seeking to persuade the European Parliament to set up a more general inquiry into the likely impact of offshoring on Europe's economy.

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  • No doubt this is true, but the report would have benefited from a mention of the opposite problem in the U.S.: the existence of so-called Davis-Bacon requirements for most public works, which set the prevailing union wage scale no matter what the competitive market pay for quality work would be.

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  • To make matters worse, Germany is even reluctant to share more sovereignty when it comes to allowing the ECB to start supervising its banks -- in particular its weaker regional lenders known as the Landesbanken - as the first stage in plans to set up a banking union across Europe.

    CNN: Is the eurozone crisis almost over?

  • The giant Tongan wing, who is set to join Gloucester rugby union side, scored first in a six-try victory.

    BBC: Leeds 14-38 Bradford

  • The use of terms such as low-tar is set to be banned from September 2003 under a European Union directive.

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  • The independent commission was set up after winning the backing of Scotland's pro-union parties, Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, in a Scottish Parliamentary vote.

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  • Minnesota and Tampa Bay, last year's American League champs, have also enjoyed various successes with low payrolls in recent years, providing plenty of fodder for a players union eager to jump on evidence that having the cash bar set by the free-spending Yankees doesn't wreak havoc on the rest of the league.

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  • Members of the air-cabin-crew union UFO voted for a strike, with talks between the body and Lufthansa set to resume Aug. 16.

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  • That means that although the company gets public funding, it will have wide latitude to set curriculum and rules, free of state-mandated red tape and union interference.

    FORBES: Build it and they will come

  • Fifa now plans to set up a sub-group, which will include the players' union FifPro as well as other interested parties, to see how the world governing body can move forward.

    BBC: Fifa to keep Olympics age limit

  • Iceland, it seemed, was set on a debt-laden but credible route to recovery and the ultimate goal of European Union membership.

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  • The UK has welcomed plans set out by the European Commission to move towards a common "banking union" across the eurozone - which could allow central authorities to intervene before a bank gets into trouble to prevent taxpayers having to bail it out later on.

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  • That is why the economy and Turkey's hoped-for membership of the European Union, not the supposed dangers posed by Islamic radicals and separatist Kurds, are set to be the main electoral issues.

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  • There's been no talk of a strike, and it wasn't clear whether the union would use the talks as a pattern to set the stage for negotiations during the summer with tire makers Bridgestone-Firestone and Michelin-BFGoodrich.

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