• That's why, in the State of the Union, I set a goal of doubling our exports over the next five years, an increase that will support 2 million jobs.

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  • John Prideaux was the first head of Union Railways, set up by British Rail to push through the Channel Tunnel rail link.

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  • In light of the calls by the National Farmers Union to set up grid to ferry water supplies from Wales to parts of the UK, Mr George called for the minister's views on the idea of a national water grid.

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  • He said that as a result of union pressure, the executive had agreed to set up a consultation exercise into the issue of privately run jails.

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  • For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners.

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  • The European Union has set a 2010 target of doubling to 12% the fraction of primary energy coming from renewable sources.

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  • In pursuit of ever closer union, Mr Delors and his staff set up ad hoc groups, bypassed chains of command and outsourced tasks to whoever could get them done.

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  • "The companies who signed up are to be applauded, " said Jyrki Raina, general secretary for IndustriALL Global Union, which set a deadline of Wednesday for companies to sign the pact.

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  • But the Roma are distinct in culture - and this distinction is important, because if the government is unsure how many Roma people live in the UK, then it will not be able to get funds for initiatives to help the Roma out of the tens of billions of euros the European Union has set aside for social inclusion projects.

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  • First, they create legal certainty by replacing the current patchwork of laws in Europe with a single set of rules for all 27 European Union countries.

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  • Stern through an emphasis of the union, could have made it where the union set up hard cord savings accounts for players , taking from their salaries and thus giving alot of players a better fiscal safety net.

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  • The union has a team of bloggers that have set up Internet outposts to quickly comment on private equity activity.

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

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  • But he said that the US would not be in a position to meet the European Union demands to set a carbon reduction target of between 25 and 40% by 2020.

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  • According to Brian Prentice, research vice president of Gartner, the near sourcing trend is partly driven by the onset of new European Union (EU) initiatives set to be adopted next year.

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  • Three Colombians at the center of the Union Bank of California saga have been extradited to the U.S. and are set to plead guilty in federal court in Miami early Tuesday, a court document shows.

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  • For now, the European Union, which is set to review its list of targeted sanctions in the next few days, seems to have adopted a wait-and-see attitude.

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  • NAFTA's complex rules of origin, moving instead towards a customs union with common tariffs on goods from other countries (to be set at the lowest level of any of the three).

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  • The European Union has deliberately set it up so that in order to service customers right across the 27 countries of the union, you only need to have one company in one country within the 27.

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  • Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union and Aslef are set to walk out on 2 April and on 2 May.

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

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  • Argentina will now face Scotland in Paris and look set to reach the semifinals of rugby union's global event for the first time.

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  • Mr Berlusconi said that he intended to tap European Union funds, as well as spending some of the cash set aside for construction projects as part of Italy's response to the global economic crisis.

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  • The limit, set by the European Union, is 40 micrograms of NO2 per cubic metre of air.

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  • The chancellor's call for political union is at its most incongruous when set against German obstruction of almost all ideas for resolving the euro crisis.

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  • "After eighteen months of intense analysis and vigorous debate about the future of Cooper Union, the time has come for us to set our institution on a path that will enable it to survive and thrive well into the future, " Epstein said.

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  • Among the principals were the late Gilbert Ziegler, who once claimed to be a citizen of the mythical Dominion of Melchizedeck and tried to set up an African Union Reserve System which, had it gotten off the ground, might have vacuumed up even more cash than First International.

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  • Recognizing the importance of cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations, as well as its benefits to the world body, the General Assembly today adopted a set of modalities granting the delegation of the European Union the right to make interventions, as well as the right of reply and the ability to present oral proposals and amendments.

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

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

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