But it did not want to violate a limit on so-called electioneering communication by corporations and unions within thirty days of a primary election.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

If you look at number of organizations that do this business, it comes completely reversed and it's credit unions that are the most important.

从这些金融机构的数量上来看,排行完全相反,信用合作社就成了最重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It's like a Savings and Loan Association except that credit unions are created by some entity, some club or group, and they're not open to the whole public.

这有点像储贷协会,不同点在于,信用合作社是由某个独立群体所创建的,比如社团或集体组织,它不面向整个社会公众

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Since the nineteen forties, the traditional place for political speech by American unions and companies has been through political action committees.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

You hear about credit unions a lot because they're in your neighborhood and they're advertising for small depositors, so they're in your face, but commercial banks are actually much more important.

你们常会听到信用合作社,因为它们就在你家附近,它们还面向小额储户打广告,所以比较显眼,但商业银行其实要重要得多

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The United States Supreme Court has cleared the way for independent spending by businesses and labor unions in political campaigns.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

I don't have the latest data -this is from 1998 -but there were 11,000 credit unions -that's the number of credit unions in the United States in 1998 -and there were only 9,000 commercial banks; that's the number of banks.

我手上没有最新的数据,这个是1998年的,共有11000个信用合作社,这是1998年全美信用合作社的数量,与此同时,商业银行只有9000家,这是银行的数量

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Companies,labor unions and other organizations may now spend as they wish on independent efforts to elect or defeat candidates.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Mother Jones believed that unions represented the best hope for coal miners and other workers to improve their lives.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Woody Guthrie was a voice for labor unions and striking workers and families beaten down by the Great Depression in the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

Cesar Chavez had built a nationwide coalition of support among unions, church groups,students, minorities and other Americans.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

But labor unions and progressive groups tried to defeat her for opposing a "public option."

VOA: special.2010.06.12

Lawmakers in Indiana,Michigan and Ohio have also proposed limits on unions representing public employees.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

Women,labor unions,religious groups, political groups,scientists and environmental organizations would also support the event.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Instead,it tied together a number of different unions and gave them general leadership.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Many people turned strongly against labor unions and leftists.

VOA: special.2010.12.02

His plans for an interim government have been rejected by a coalition of political parties,trade unions, and civil society groups.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

Some police,Coast Guard members and firefighters joined labor unions on the streets demanding "real jobs and higher pay."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

The high court is expected to rule soon on a case unresolved from last term involving long-standing restrictions on corporations and labor unions contributing to political candidates.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

The main opposition coalition of political parties, civil society groups, and trade unions organized the strike to remember those killed, beaten,and raped by members of Guinea's military on September 28.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Leaders of the South Africa's opposition political parties, labor unions and health-care professions praised President Zuma for launching an ambitious program to test 15 million South Africans for the HIV/AIDS virus by June of next year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

"We will gather CEO's and small business owners, economists and financial experts, as well as representatives from labor unions and nonprofit groups,to talk about how we can work together to create jobs and get this economy moving again,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.12