Posts Tagged ‘congress’
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
The Department of Justice has filed suit against Arizona's immigration law, arguing that it interferes with the federal government's right to set and enforce its own border policy. The long-expected challenge names Arizona Gov

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Justice Department files suit against Arizona over immigration law
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
United States - Business - Financial services - Financial Planning - Engines

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Congress fulfills narrow ambitions with financial overhaul bill
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
An energized Congress, coupled with U.S. taxpayer frustration, is a dangerous force

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It's Smart Business To Get Out Of Iran
Tags: companies, congress, electricity, energy, financial-news, gasoline, iran, iranian, market-coverage, market-news, People, petroleum, technology, wind-power
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Apple has sold a million iPads in less than a month, a runaway tech success story that is shaking up the tablet computer and netbook marketplace, according to analysts.

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iPad Will Force Netbook, E-reader Makers to Evolve or Die
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Cuttack, April 29: The police commissionerate is yet to crack the theft of rare and precious books, magazines, journals and music, along with computer peripherals, from the digital wing of Kanika Library at Ravenshaw University.

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Cops yet to crack library theft
Tags: astrology, books, charts, chess, cinema, congress, kolkata, op-ed, science, soccer, Sports, weather, west-bengal
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
London, April 8: A rare first edition copy of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, with a poignant handwritten inscription by the author to his young daughter, has been discovered at the National Trusts Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire.

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Mowgli, for little Josephine
Tags: abp, astrology, calcutta, congress, kipling, kolkata, op-ed, politics, Sports, west-bengal, wimpole
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Chennai, Feb 8 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today donated 1,000 rare books to the upcoming Anna Centenary Library, a world class public library being built by the state government at Kotturpuram.

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Karunanidhi donates 1,000 rare books to library (New Kerala)
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
A world map created by the Italian-born Jesuit priest, Matteo Ricci in 1602, which places China at its center, is on display at the Library of Congress.

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A Big Map That Shrank the World (New York Times)
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
A rare 400-year-old Chinese-language world map that for one of the first times identifies "Ka-na-ta" as the territory that would one day become Canada went on display in Washington, D.C.

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Rare Chinese-language map goes on display in Washington (Canada.com)
Tags: canada-com, china, chinese, congress, internet, matteo-ricci, parenting, surround-session, university
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
The "Impossible Black Tulip," a massive map showing the world with China at its center, will be displayed for the first time in North America at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., starting tomorrow.

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Rare map offers a different view of the world (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
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