The two sides met for nearly 11 hours before East Coast members of the writers union announced on their Web site that the strike had begun for their 4, 000 members.

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Early pictures on the Web site of a local newspaper, L'Union L'Ardennais, showed heaps of debris spilling out of the building onto a grassy esplanade below, with two helmeted people perched on a crane for a look inside.

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"I can't express the joy of what this means for me and the whole team at the Union Argentina de Rugby who have been working on this important project, " he told the IRB official Web site.

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Andy Stern's Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, which represents 1.8 million workers, recently started a private equity campaign featuring a Web site, behindthebuyouts.org.

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