Thompson would only say that the company won't be using a significant portion of its funds for the auction.

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Like other measures that have passed, the New York City one would ban help-wanted ads that say unemployed applicants won't qualify.

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"I would say that, hold your breath, because any time now, that won't be a problem, " said Bill Graves, head of the American Trucking Associations.

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Ed Balls will promise that, as chancellor, he'd have "tough fiscal rules" but he won't say what they'd be (much more significant is his concession that they would be judged independently and not by him as they were when he was last in the Treasury).

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Such details add to the odd spectacle of the ex-veep, who would have been running Mideast policy had he won a few more votes in Florida, selling -- and some say selling out -- to the emir.

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