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		<title><![CDATA[50 Percent of Firms Plan Wage Freeze]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Half of the UK's employers are planning to freeze wages for the second year in a row, according to an employment trends study reported in the Financial Times on Monday.The survey by the CBI employers' group and Harvey Nash, the recruitment consultancy, said that 47 percent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:45:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Call for pay freeze in public sector]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A pay freeze for senior public sector staff including judges, family doctors, NHS managers and top civil servants was proposed by ministers yesterday, along with rises of less than 1 per cent for hospital doctors, dentists and ordinary civil -servants.In evidence to the review bodies that recommend pay for...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Six Ways to Handle a Pay Freeze]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[    For talented employees, annual performance reviews are supposed consist of an hour of congratulatory back-slapping, followed by a large bonus cheque and a thumping great pay-rise.    But this year, the most anyone can look forward to is a carefully worded treatise on the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Acme Packet Inc Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator  Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Paul Silverstein - Credit Suisse.  Paul Silverstein - Credit Suisse  I guess the most obvious question would be Cisco last night, Sonus this morning, the world&#8217;s collapsing around us; you guys put up pretty solid numbers. Andy,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley Applauds Cuomo and FSA Actions on Short Selling]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- Morgan Stanley applauds Attorney General Cuomo for taking strong action to root out improper short selling of financial stocks. By initiating a wide-ranging investigation of this manipulative and fraudulent conduct, Attorney General Cuomo is showing decisive leadership in trying to help stabilize the financial markets. We also...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Handle a Hiring Freeze With Finesse]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chances are you've been there, on one side of the fence or the other. You're looking to hire a new employee when -- whoops! -- the powers that be yank your budget.    Or you've been interviewing for a plum position and suddenly it's no longer available. ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Olympiakos ask for asset freeze on Rivaldo]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATHENS AFP &#8212; Greek champions Olympiakos on Wednesday asked for a court freeze on the assets of their Brazilian former star Rivaldo after he reportedly cast doubt about their recent championship victory and past title wins, the club said.  The motion is designed to secure the payment of damages...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Filipinos to resume work in Jordan after abuse row]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMMAN AFP &#8212; Jordan and the Philippines agreed on Sunday to lift a two-month freeze on the employment of Filipino household workers in the kingdom, following allegations of abuse which Amman has denied.  "The two sides have agreed on the freeze, but reached an agreement to end it around...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Credit Reporting Agencies Make It Easier to Freeze ID Thieves]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200803/ai_n25310984]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To: STATE EDITORS Contact: David Irwin, +1-312-458-3621, or Gerardo Cardenas, +1- 312-458-3609, both of AARP Illinois  AARP Illinois Commends Equifax, Experian & TransUnion for Efforts to Educate Consumers on Tool to Protect Identity CHICAGO, March 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the latest blow to would-be identity thieves, all three major...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Investment Insider - Plans adapt to regulatory changes, but volatility could disrupt benign status quo]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a four-part series analyzing news and trends in the defined benefit retirment industry.   Most analysts agree DB plans ended 2007 in surprisingly good shape, as year-end data presents a healthy picture including a slowdown in freezes and robust funding levels.   "There...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Identity theft and the case for a national credit report freeze law]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6779/is_12/ai_n28512007]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I. INTRODUCTION  The statistics tell the story. (1) The personal data of over forty-five million consumers was compromised in 2005 alone. (2) From mid-2006 to 2007, approximately fifteen million Americans fell victim to identity theft due to the misuse of compromised data, a fifty percent increase since 2003. (3)...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD AFP &#8212; Moqtada al-Sadr's six-month freeze on attacks by his Mahdi Army has strengthened his hand and allowed him to purge dissidents from the ranks of the militia, analysts and aides of the Shiite cleric said.  Sadr, long a thorn in the side of US-led forces in Iraq,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Subprime rate freeze leaves homeowners scrambling]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BE READY to wait if you want to get information from a toll-free hot line about freezing the interest rate on your subprime mortgage.   Minutes after President Bush outlined a plan to help strapped homeowners, callers were told to have patience until a counselor could answer their questions...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Freeze on mortgage rate not sure-fire]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20071208/ai_n21147301]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Be ready to wait if you want to get information from a toll-free hotline about freezing the interest rate on your subprime mortgage.   Minutes after President Bush outlined a plan to help strapped homeowners, callers were told to have patience until a counselor could answer their...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA['Security Freeze' Could Leave ID Thieves Out in the Cold in Illinois]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200712/ai_n21799489]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To: STATE EDITORSContact: David Irwin of AARP, +1-312-458-3621 But New Study Finds Consumer Protection Tool Virtually Unknown - AARP Urges Credit Reporting Agencies to Make Freeze Easily AccessibleCHICAGO,Dec. 7/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The holiday shopping season is in full swing and so are identity thieves. Yet the best tool to protect consumers from...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mortgage aid deal could help one million: White House official]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200712/ai_n21150292]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; A mortgage relief packaged hammered out by the US administration and major lenders could help more than one million homeowners avert foreclosure in the next two years, a White House official said Thursday.  A senior White House official said the plan, to be formally announced later...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mortgage aid deal could help one million: White House official]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; A mortgage relief packaged hammered out by the US administration and major lenders could help more than one million homeowners avert foreclosure in the next two years, a White House official said Thursday.  A senior White House official said the plan, to be formally announced later...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[White House to announce mortgage aid plan]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200712/ai_n21133822]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; The administration of President George W. Bush was set to unveil its plan Thursday for averting a wave of home foreclosures, with some reports saying it may include a freeze on some interest rates.  Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Somalia lifts freeze on aid operations]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200712/ai_n21133694]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[MERKA, Somalia AFP &#8212; Aid operations in southeastern Somalia resumed Wednesday after the government lifted a freeze implemented a day earlier for unclear reasons, the UN's food programme WFP said.  WFP spokesman Peter Smerdon said aid agencies and NGOs were authorised to resume activities which had been suspended by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Palestinians demand halt to Israeli settlement expansion]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP &#8212; The Palestinians have written to the US government demanding a complete freeze on the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, a senior official said on Saturday.  The demand comes amid intense talks between Israeli and Palestinians in an effort to reach...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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