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A final, desperate -- and doomed -- push for H-1B restrictions

2013-06-20 15:05:18| InfoWorld: Top News

The Senate is expected to vote next week on an immigration bill, and it is likely to pass after one last fight to give U.S. workers hiring preference over foreigners with H-1B visas. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) are backing a proposed amendment to the immigration bill that would require employers to "first offer a vacant position to an equally or better qualified American worker" before filling the job with an H-1B worker.

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United Kingdom: The desperate battle to save our coastline

2013-05-07 09:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: The 95-mile Jurassic Coast between Poole Harbour in Dorset and the Exe estuary in Devon is an extreme example of geological exhibitionism. Among its many wonders are red and white cliffs, fossils galore, England's most elegant sea arch, offshore stacks and the delightfully symmetrical scoop of Lulworth Cove. They exist because this is a coast on the move, under continual attack from tide and tempest. Last week, a small part of it, at the base of a cliff on the edge of St Oswald's Bay, fractured...

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RBS boss Hester 'desperate to lend'

2013-05-05 20:21:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Royal Bank of Scotland is "desperate" to lend 20bn to UK businesses, the bank's chief executive has claimed.

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Facebook Home: Brilliant Stroke or Desperate Measure?

2013-04-08 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

Political and economic news from around the globe may bombard us with annoying regularity here in the tech community, and as most of us know, the news is almost always bad. That, of course, is why it's such a good thing we have Facebook to filter out what we don't want to hear. It's also why we all waited in rapt attention for the Facebook Home announcement.

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