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• Latinos Unite Across Classes Against Curbs on Immigration

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Latinos, Unite, Across, Classes, Against, Curbs, Immigration, Prince William County, Maryland, Jesus Calva, Manassas, Ricardo Juarez, Virginia, Gilbert Mejia, Northern Virginia, Ruben Andrade, United States, North Carolina, Annandale, Carlos Alvarado, Central America, Dona

  Jos Marinay wears tailored suits, plays racquetball twice a week and displays photos of family-owned racehorses in his Annandale office. For years, the Colombian-born businessman thought he had little in common with the area's illegal immigrants, often villagers from Mexico and Central America w...

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• Calif. (Still) Seeks Curbs On Emissions

  Published: November 2, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Calif, Still, Seeks, Curbs, Emissions, California, U S Environmental Protection Agency, U S Department Of State, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Doniger, Jennifer Wood, Juliet Eilperin, The White House, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council, United States

  The Bush administration and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) may be in the midst of a standoff over whether to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, but at least the State Department likes the idea.

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• FDA Considers Easing Curbs on Drug Makers

  Published: December 1, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Fda, Considers, Easing, Curbs, Drug, Makers, Henry Waxman, Food And Drug Administration, Diane Dorman, Celebrex, Vioxx, Ken Johnson, Rita Chappelle, National Organization For Rare Disorders Inc, Pharmaceutical Research And Manufacturers Of America, U S House Committe

  The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing pharmaceutical makers to provide doctors with medical journal studies of unapproved uses for drugs, a move critics say would undermine long-standing restrictions on marketing medicines for "off-label" purposes.

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• Wintry Storm Curbs Campaigning in Iowa

  Published: December 2, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Wintry, Storm, Curbs, Campaigning, Iowa, Hillary Clinton, Gordon Fischer, Teresa Vilmain, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, The Associated Press, Chicago O Hare International Airport, Des Moines, Eric Schultz, John Edwards General, Mit

  DES MOINES, Dec. 1 -- And now for something else the Clinton campaign cannot control: the weather.

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• Construction woes for Vancouver wheelchair users

  Published: December 5, 2007, 7:39 pm

  Tags: Alma, Broadway, Roadside, Vancouver, Access, Aging, Construction, Crossing, Curbs, Impaired, Larch, Life, Lori, Project, Ramp, Renewal, Repair, Resident, Sidewalks, Temporary

  This article by UBC journalism student Stephanie Lim neatly sums up the issues faced by wheelchair users in Vancouver dealing with the consequences of the many road construction projects around the city. "Point Grey...read more

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• Federal Reserve To Propose Tighter Standards On Subprime Mortgages

  Published: December 18, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Ben Bernanke, Board Of Governors, Central Banking, Federal Reserve, Home Ownership And Equity Protection Act Hoepa, Home Sales, Housing Market, Curbs, Restrictions, Proposed, Unduly, Crackdown, Midst, Wyss, Prepay

  Reserve to Propose New Curbs to Target Subprime Mortgages. Further Analysis and Discussion with David Wyss of S&P Federal Reserve staff recommended that policy makers issue new restrictions on subprime mortgages, from a ban on low documentation loans to limiting penalties for borrowers who prepay their debts. The new proposal, which

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• Attorney General Reverses Curbs On Gay Group at Justice Department

  Published: February 5, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Attorney, General, Reverses, Curbs, Gay, Group, Justice, Department, Chris Hook, U S Department Of Justice, Michael Mukasey, John Ashcroft, Russ Feingold, Alberto Gonzales, Peter Carr, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary

  Five years after a gay advocacy group was told that it could no longer use the e-mail, bulletin boards and meeting rooms at the Justice Department, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has reversed that decision and issued a revised equal-employment-opportunity policy barring discrimination agains...

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• Attorney General Reverses Curbs On Gay Group at Justice Department

  Published: February 5, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Attorney, General, Reverses, Curbs, Gay, Group, Justice, Department, Chris Hook, U S Department Of Justice, Michael Mukasey, John Ashcroft, Russ Feingold, Alberto Gonzales, Peter Carr, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary

  Five years after a gay advocacy group was told that it could no longer use the e-mail, bulletin boards and meeting rooms at the Justice Department, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has reversed that decision and issued a revised equal-employment-opportunity policy barring discrimination agains...

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• Beijing Curbs Religious Rights

  Published: August 10, 2008, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Beijing, Curbs, Religious, Rights

  BEIJING -- China describes itself as a religiously tolerant society, one that allows its citizens to worship freely. This week, per Olympic tradition, it is extending that same freedom to athletes in the form of worship rooms in the Olympic Village, each dedicated for the world's major religions.

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