The nation's fifth largest carrier, Houston-based Continental Airlines (nyse: CAL - news - people ), said Saturday that they plan to cut their long term schedule by 20% and will lay off 12, 000 workers.

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Samsung's response will go beyond just asking HEG to shape up, though: it plans to finish auditing all 105 of its exclusive Chinese contractors by the end of September, determine whether inspections of non-exclusive contractors are needed and set up a long-term audit schedule past 2013 that includes tougher requirements.

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And because it is a long-term ECB plan to schedule two Tests in May, centrally-contracted players may only get a handful of IPL matches each year.

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