LA city offices closed for Cesar Chavez DayLos Angeles TimesFederal offices, including the US Post Office, also will remain open. In 2000, state legislators and former Gov. Gray Davis established March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day, the first state holiday in the country to honor a Latino or organized labor …
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Postal workers repeated their demand to keep the post public on Monday after reports suggested Royal Mail might be sold off next year. A share offering, or IPO, for the vital 500-year-old service would be the biggest privatisation since Britain's railways were handed to privateers in the '90s. More: continued …
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CBS News Buyers snap up half-price cars in eBay promotionCBS News(MoneyWatch) Some buyers with fast fingers are scoring new cars at half price as part of a joint promotion of auction site eBay Motors and online seller AutoNation. AutoNation, the largest group of US car dealerships, is promoting the launch …
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Read More »EBay And GOP Lawmaker Score Clean Energy Win In Utah – ThinkProgress
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Read More »EBay blocks sale of sorbitol after death in Italy – Reuters
Times LIVE EBay blocks sale of sorbitol after death in ItalyReutersROME, March 26 (Reuters) – Online auction company EBay Inc said on Monday it had blocked global sales of sorbitol following the death of a medical patient in Italy who consumed a sample of the sugar substitute which had been …
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