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Restraint is the new red in China
BEIJING — Exports of elegant Swiss watches to China have plunged. Sales of Mercedes-Benz and other premium sedans are slowing. And high-end restaurants, coming off their worst Chinese New Year festival in years, are starting to change their menus to...
Tags: Media Industry, Gucci Group NV, Business, Sales, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements
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A long, expensive (and distinctive) race nears the finish line
A two-year campaign that has drawn record spending will see either the first woman or the first Jew elected as Los Angeles mayor. But despite those milestones, candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti sped around the city Sunday trying to avoid another...
Tags: Mark Ridley-Thomas, Eric Garcetti, Primaries, Linthicum, Voting
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Low voter turnout expected for Somerset County municipal elections
Daily American Staff Writer, @damichellegVoters will not need photograph identification to vote in the municipal primary Tuesday. Tina Pritts, Somerset County elections director, said election board officials will ask people for identification, however, voters are not required to present it....Tags: Voting, Local Elections, Politics
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L.A.'s Mid-Wilshire neighborhood could be election bellwether
It's a small swath of Los Angeles, near the city's heart, that hasn't received much attention from the mayoral candidates. But a Times analysis shows that a 2.8-square-mile, Mid-Wilshire neighborhood has had an unmatched record of picking mayors in both...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Lifestyle and Leisure, Primaries, Voting, Dining and Drinking
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GOP ticket stumps in Virginia Beach
VIRGINIA BEACH — A day after a late-running, closely-watched convention, the top three members of the state GOP ticket campaigned together for the first time. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the gubernatorial nominee, nominee for lieutenant ...
Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Mark D. Obenshain, Health Care Reform (2009), Democratic Party
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Politics get local in Pennsylvania primary election
Former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill once declared that “all politics is local,” and voters across Pennsylvania will be making choices in that vein as they head to the polls Tuesday. Tuesday’s primary election will...
Tags: Judges, Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Primaries, Franklin County (Pennsylvania)
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'Maldonado for governor' off to a bad start
SACRAMENTO — It seemed like a fairly good idea at the time — the idea of Abel Maldonado running for governor. He wasn't going to win. But neither would he be a Republican embarrassment. There was no Republican in sight with even a faint...Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Prisons, Democratic Party, Politics
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Hagel: It was furlough 680K or deepen readiness crisis
By Tom Philpott Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the furlough of 680,000 civilian employees for one day a week, from early July through September, to avoid taking deeper cuts in training and maintenance, which could have degraded readiness to the...Tags: Career and Workplace, Parties and Movements, Unemployment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Garcetti, Greuel fight for African American votes in final hours
A two-year-long campaign that has drawn record spending will put either the first woman or the first elected Jewish leader in the Los Angeles mayor’s office. But despite those milestones, candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti sped around the...
Tags: Mark Ridley-Thomas, Eric Garcetti, Linthicum, Voting, Religion and Belief
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Obama tells black college graduates he could have gone wrong 'but for the grace of God'
Associated PressATLANTA (AP) — President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college...Tags: Social Issues, Annapolis, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael F. Bennet, Graduation
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Term Limits commission hears research design, electoral history
Members of the Tinley Park Term Limits Commission continued to explore the issue at the group's third meeting, where more information was presented to the group. The commission, appointed by Mayor Ed Zabrocki after voters overwhelmingly voted in favor...Tags: Tinley Park, Des Plaines, Political Corruption, Voting, Rolling Meadows
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Wayne Brady takes on Bill Maher's definition of blackness
Comedy — as Steve Martin once observed — is not pretty. Nor are racial stereotypes. We were reminded of both last week when comic Wayne Brady verbally pimp-slapped fellow funnyman Bill Maher during a HuffPost Live interview. In recent...
Tags: Entertainment, Rollins College, Bill Maher, Barack Obama, Politics
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