Wal-Mart wins class-action case in Supreme Court In a ruling that raises new barriers to class-action lawsuits against large companies, the U.S. Supreme Court derailed a sex discrimination suit Monday on behalf of more than 1 million female Wal-Mart employees, saying they failed to pinpoint any company policy that denied them equal pay or promotions. The justices unanimously overruled federal courts in San Francisco that had allowed all women who worked for Wal-Mart ...
Iraq to chase missing billions Parliament seeks UN help to track down what it calls Iraqi oil money stolen from reconstruction fund. Iraq's parliament has asked the United Nations for help to track down about $18bn of Iraqi oil money it says was stolen after the 2003 US-led invasion. In a letter to the UN office in Baghdad last month, parliament's Integrity Committee asked for help to find and recover the oil money taken from the Development Fund of Iraq ...
Construction slump creates a Sheetrock ghost town Empire, Nev., is last intact example of an American icon: the company town. EMPIRE, Nev. — This mining town of 300 people clings like a burr to the back of the Black Rock Desert. ...
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas..." Karl Marx (1818 Germany) came from an upper-middle-class/bourgeois family. Herschel Marx + Henriette Pressburg / Karl Marx His father, Herschel/Heinrich Marx (1777 Germany), was a lawyer, magistrate & vinyard owner; his grandfather (1743 'Bohemia') was the rabbi of Trier, from a family of rabbis. His grandmother also came from a line of distinguished ...
Originally Posted by Tinoire Angry Pakistani army says it doesn't want U.S. aid By Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers Thursday, June 9, 201 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's army lashed out Thursday at its critics at home as well as in the United States in an angry statement that underscored just how deep a crisis the country's armed forces are suffering. The statement rejected all American financial aid for the military, saying the money should go instead to the government to be spent on "the ...
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