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Riot police detain a protester in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions organized a march of nearly 100,000 workers of the European Union institutions to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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Riot police detain protesters in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions prepared a march of nearly 100,000 workers on the European Union institutions to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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Demonstrators march down a main boulevard in Brussels Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Labor unions prepared a march of nearly 100,000 workers on the European Union institutions on Wednesday to protest the budget slashing plans and austerity measures of governments seeking to control spiraling debt. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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A store employee works on a display window that has graffiti with the word "strike" on in Madrid's Gran Via, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
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Associated Press Andy Stern, seen here in October 2009 while still president of the Service Employees International Union, is said to be the subject of an FBI corruption probe.
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** FILE ** A protesting policemen holds up handcuffs during a rally in front of government headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. More than 8,000 police officers and jail wardens, chanting anti-presidential slogans, joined the rally and, later, an unauthorized march to the Romanian president's offices to protest austerity measures such as cuts in salaries and pensions imposed by the government to meet International Monetary Fund requirements for getting a loan. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Women holding a placard reading "Women! Double day, Half pension" during a protest, in Marseille, southern France, Thursday Sept. 23, 2010. French commuters squeezed onto limited trains or fought for rare parking spots Thursday as a second round of strikes against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62 hobbled trains, planes and schools across the country. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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President Barack Obama greets Gail O'Brien, from Keene, N.H., in the backyard of a private residence in Falls Church, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, to discuss the Patient's Bill of Rights and health care reform. Earlier this year, O'Brien was diagnosed with high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and had no health insurance. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama greets Gail O'Brien, from Keene, N.H., in the backyard of a private residence in Falls Church, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, to discuss the Patient's Bill of Rights and health care reform. Earlier this year, Ms. O'Brien was diagnosed with high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and had no health insurance. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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**FILE** President Obama greets Gail O'Brien, from Keene, N.H., in the back yard of a private residence in Falls Church, Va., on Sept. 22 to discuss the Patient's Bill of Rights and health care reform. Earlier this year, Ms. O'Brien was diagnosed with high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and had no health insurance. (Associated Press)
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Workers remove debris from a collapsed pedestrian bridge near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. The bridge, under construction near the Commonwealth Games main stadium, collapsed Tuesday, injuring at least 23 workers, police said. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2010 file photo, people use computers at an Internet cafe in Fuyang in central China's Anhui province. Google is hiring dozens of marketing and technical employees in China to defend a shrinking market share against local rivals after closing its Chinese search engine six months ago this Wednesday, Sept. 22 in a dispute over censorship. (AP Photo, File)
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Matthew Harris works with a white widow marijuana plant at Marjyn Investments LLC in Oakland, Calif. He is among 40 workers who joined the Teamsters this month. (Associated Press)
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Government employees line up to enter a state-run bus after work in Old Havana, Cuba, Monday Sept. 13, 2010. Raul Castro's government announced it will cast off at least half a million state employees by mid-2011 and reduce restrictions on private enterprise to help them find new jobs. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "OK, we're in a bad way. We need to get some stuff done. ... If you want to get stuff done, hire somebody that's done stuff and I've done stuff," Democratic state Rep. Bryan Lentz said.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Although changes won't be noticed immediately, United and Continental airlines will combine their unionized work forces, merge reservation systems and repaint their planes with the United name and Continental globe logo.
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An unidentified man who lost his job two months ago after being hurt on the job works a Miami street corner to collect money for his family on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. The man said his unemployment check did not cover his costs of living. He added that his girlfriend works full time as a waitress. The ranks of the working-age poor climbed to the highest level since the 1960s as the recession threw millions of people out of work last year. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
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City workers start cleaning up behind the bicentennial parade in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 15, 2010. Mexico celebrates the 200th anniversary of its 1810 independence uprising. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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A sign in the window of the Chicago Workforce Center in Illinois instructs people how to file for unemployment insurance benefits online. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
