Trade pact proposals with Chile Singapore gain kudos hisses
The United States moves toward free trade pacts with Chile and Singapore, seen by supporters as prosperity and by labor foes as job losses. Critics fault labor and environmental protections versus the Jordan agreement, while proponents push new zones for the Western Hemisphere.
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Singapore
Hisses
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United States
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Organized Labor
Jordan
Senate
Mexico
Canada
Israel
U.S
Central America
Western Hemisphere
Middle America
George Miller
D-Calif
William Klinefelter
United Steelworkers of America
Bush team to promote economic plan on Midwest tour
President Bush’s economic team Treasury Secretary John Snow Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will hold a two day Jobs and Growth Tour through Wisconsin and Minnesota with town hall meetings round tables and factory visits to boost support for the 330 billion tax cut. The tour aims to spur growth amid a 6.4 percent unemployment rate and record deficits. Wisconsin and Minnesota were lost by Bush in 2000 and the effort to reverse that in 2004 continues.
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Bush
Wisconsin
Minnesota
White House
Treasury
John Snow
Commerce
Don Evans
Labor
Elaine Chao
Congress
Philadelphia
al Gore
America’s birth certificate map on display in Washington
The 496 year old Waldseemueller map, the first to label part of the New World as America, goes on view at the Library of Congress after a $10 million purchase. The 12 panel, 36 square foot relic was found at a German prince’s castle and is the only known surviving copy.
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America
New World
Library of Congress
Johannes Waldburg- Wolfegg
Germany
John K. Hebert
United States
Ters
Brazil
North
South America
Amerigi Vespucci
Matin Waldseemueller
Vespucci
Continent
Columbus
Hebert
West
Equator
East
Pacific
Lewis & Clark
Jefferson
Meriwether Lewis
Louisiana Territory
Napoleon
William Clark
Atlantic
Far East
Great Lakes
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Ottawa Herald
Woop. Com Inc
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Wits
Aero
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Paco Usar Dee Uctimi Atlesbatem Benet Insurance Companies
Franklin
Miami
Douglas Counties
Mark
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