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Hollywood Actors, Studios Head For Labor Limbo
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood actors and studios held a final day of labor talks on Monday before their contract was due to expire, but the midnight deadline was expected to pass with neither a settlement nor a strike. Barring...
Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Litigation, strike, Hollywood, Los Angeles, TV, settlement, leader, Thomson Reuters Corp., alliance, job, leadership, talent, agent, movie, radio, advertisement, Internet
News items 2008-06-30
Local Government Staff to Strike in July
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Around 600,000 local government workers will strike on July 16 and 17 in protest over pay, public sector union Unison said on Tuesday. The staff, ranging from garbage collectors to teaching assistants, voted to strike on Monday after rejecting a 2.45 ...
Tags: Public Sector, Oukbs, Strike
News items 2008-06-24
Peruvian Miners Ready For Nationwide Strike
By Jean Luis Arce LIMA (Reuters) - Miners in Peru, the world's leading silver producer and second-largest copper and zinc miner, were readying a strike for midnight on Sunday that will see walkouts at the country's leading pits. Workers are expected to walk...
Tags: Benefits, Peru, zinc, walkout, strike, midnight, pit, worker, copper, U.S. Congress, profit sharing, Thomson Reuters Corp., pension fund, government, president, benefit, outsourcing, job, leader, phone, industry
News items 2008-06-29

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The new Taurus 800 Semiauto pistol series
From Taurus Derived from the company's popular "Taurus OSS" model designed for US Armed Forces, this series boats many new customer requested features including an added external hammer. The 800 Series, available in .45 ACP, .40 S&W and 9mm, features Taurus' industry changing "Strike Two" capability. Firing normally...
Articles 2008-08-01
Triple crown winning pitchers
SINCE 1900, THERE HAVE BEEN 19 DIFFERENT MAJOR LEAGUE PITCHERS WHO HAVE LEO THEIR LEAGUE IN WINS, STRIKE-OUTS and ERA in the same season, a feat that has been accomplished 30 times. Grover Alexander did it four times while Walter Johnson and Sandy Koufax achieved the feat three times. AMERICAN...
Articles 2008-08-01
Instant replay in baseball: has its pros and cons
HIS YOUNGER DAYS, JOCKO CONLAN, THE LATE HALL OF FAME UMPIRE, WAS A popular after-dinner speaker at various sporting functions in the Chicago area. And, occasionally, he would amuse his audience with a favorite story about the difficulty of making the right call on the field. His story...
Articles 2008-08-01
Players with hitting streaks of 30 or more games
Players With Hitting Streaks of 30 or More GamesTHROUGH THE 2007 SEASON, THERE HAVE BEEN 43 HITTING STREAKS THATREACHED 30 CONSECUTIVE GAMES ACCOMPLISHED BY 41 different players--only Ty Cobb and George Sisler had two skeins of 30 or more games.It should be noted that some streaks occurred prior to 1900...
Articles 2008-08-01
Bees' Brown fuels PCL All-Stars' rally
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Matt Brown hardly seemed bothered when the Pacific Coast League entered the top of the ninth trailing the International League by two in the Triple-A All-Star game. "Nobody was down; we had confidence," Brown said. "In the PCL, two runs is nothing. Nobody was...
Articles 2008-07-17
As strike bites, unions press Brown to raise taxes on rich
Gordon Brown is under mounting pressure to raise taxes for high earners so he can reduce the tax burden on low-income families struggling as the economic slowdown begins to bite. Some ministers are urging the Prime Minister to "be bold" by risking tax rises for people earning more than 100,000...
Articles 2008-07-17
Petrobras Energia's San Lorenzo Refinery Back to Normal Rates After Series of Unplanned Shutdowns, an Industrial Info News Alert
Researched by Industrial Info Resources(Sugar Land, Texas) -- After a series of unplanned maintenance shutdowns,especially after a strike staged by truck drivers in mid-June, PetrobrasEnergia's (NYSE:PZE) San Lorenzo refinery in Argentina is back online andproducing at normal rates. For details, view the entire article by subscribing to Industrial Info'sPremium Industry...
Articles 2008-07-17
Fross Zelnick Secures Favorable Judgment and Attorneys' Fees for Crown Awards, Inc. in Copyright Infringement Case
NEW YORK -- Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, a leading firm in trademark, copyright, design patent and unfair competition law, announced today that the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision following a bench trial in March awarding its client Crown Awards, Inc.,...
Articles 2008-07-16
Retired Okla. attorney makes case for unconstitutionality of tax
Only one lawmaker showed up to retired attorney Jerry Fent's hearing before a state Supreme Court referee on Tuesday. The same lawmaker cast the sole vote against Senate Bill 2034 when it was heard by the Legislature earlier this year. But state Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City,...
Articles 2008-07-16
Montmartre poised to power towards Arc
The latest bright star to twinkle tantalisingly over the European middle-distance landscape, the new Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe favourite Montmartre, will have the classic French build-up to his tilt at Europe's richest prize. In other words, a summer holiday and a run in the Prix Niel three weeks before...
Articles 2008-07-16
Teachers told: 'No pay rises until more quit'
Teachers have been told they cannot have a further pay rise until more of them start quitting the classroom. A letter to teachers' unions and employers, seen by The Independent, reveals that the profession's pay review body has ruled out any reconsideration of their three-year pay deal,...
Articles 2008-07-16
Going after Sudan's President is a bold step, but also a massive
WORLD FOCUS The decision this week by the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor to charge the President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, with genocide and other crimes committed in Darfur, is a bold step. It is a recognition of the suffering Darfuris have endured at the hands of...
Articles 2008-07-16
Wits Basin Announces Another Gold Intercept at the Bates-Hunter Mine Project
MINNEAPOLIS -- Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (OTCBB:WITM) is pleased to announce that it has intercepted another significant gold interval in the Groundhogg Vein at the Bates-Hunter Mine in Central City, Colorado. The intersection occurred in drill hole BH-08-10. It assayed 0.265 ounces per ton opt gold Au over a...
Articles 2008-07-16
Montmartre poised to power towards Arc
The latest bright star to twinkle tantalisingly over the European middle-distance landscape, the new Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe favourite Montmartre, will have the classic French build-up to his tilt at Europe's richest prize. In other words, a summer holiday and a run in the Prix Niel three weeks before...
Articles 2008-07-16
FX says so long to 'The Shield'
LOS ANGELES -- On a day dedicated to edgy cable channel FX, the network talked to TV writers about saying goodbye to the series that started it all. The Shield, which airs its seventh, final season starting in September, was FX's first original series, sparked rival cable networks...
Articles 2008-07-16
Petrobras, union hold talks as strike threatens to widen
RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras and its main union held talks Wednesday to try and negotiate an end to a strike that threatens to widen into a national oil workers' stoppage. The meeting came on the third day of a five-day strike called...
Articles 2008-07-16
World datelines
Japan: Fishermen go on strike TOKYO -- Fishermen across Japan went on a massive one-day strike Tuesday to protest skyrocketing fuel prices, the latest blow to the country's foundering fishing industry. The strike was the largest ever for the industry, involving 200,000 boats and...
Articles 2008-07-16
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