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| Obama pushing on health care end game
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|  AP - President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast.
| | Biden's West Bank tour clouded by settlement plans
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|  AP - Israel's new plan to build 1,600 apartments for Jews in Palestinian-claimed east Jerusalem overshadowed Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the West Bank on Wednesday.
| | Behind the scenes, crafting the US no-fly list
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|  AP - It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home.
| | Runaway Prius driver: Brakes were 'almost burned'
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|  AP - Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move.
| | How the AP-GfK poll on Obama was conducted
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| AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Obama, the direction of the country and health care was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from March 3-8. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,002 adults. Interviews were conducted with 702 respondents on landline telephones and 300 on cellular phones. |
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Business News
| Romania To Back Moldova?s Efforts Toward EU Accession Regardless Govt Formula-FM | Romania maintains its policy to support Moldovan endeavors toward EU accession, regardless of the country?s government formula, foreign minister Adrian Cioroianu said Wednesday. | | Rompetrol CEO Sees Bucharest As Balkans? Future Financial Capital | Rompetrol president Dinu Patriciu on Wednesday said Bucharest could become the ?financial capital? of Balkan area. | | PM Calls For Caution In Investigations Regarding Nokia Plant In Romania | Romanian Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu said on Wednesday the country?s Anticorruption Department must handle with more care subjects regarding important investors like Finnish company Nokia in order not to scare the investors away. | | Romanian Mobile Telephony Customers Top Country Population Number | Romania?s top three mobile telephony operators, Orange, Vodafone and Cosmote, had together 22.236 million customers at the end of 2007, exceeding by over half a million the population in the country, of 21.565 million people. | | Romanian PM Says Min Liability Law Should Be Independent Technocrat Made | Romanian prime minister Calin Tariceanu said he wants a new law on minister liability that would make the ministers more responsible, but which does not leave the ministers ?at the hands of political abuse? by the presidency. | | Romania Former WBO World Champ Mihai Leu Runs For Hunedoara Mayoralty | Romania?s Conservative Party on Thursday will present the candidacy of member Mihai Leu, former WBO World Champion, for mayor position in Hunedoara municipality, western country. | | Romanian Govt Oks Electrica Muntenia Sud Sale To Italy?s Enel | The Romanian Government has approved the privatization of Romanian regional power distributor Electrica Muntenia Sud to Italy's utility Enel SpA (EN), Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said Wednesday. | | Romanian Tanks For Tires Case Suspended Pending Constitutional Court Decision | The trial in which Romanian retired generals Eugen Badalan and Mihai Popescu, among others, are charged with causing over EUR1.2 million in losses to the Army Ground Forces General Staff was suspended when the Supreme Court approved the exception of unconstitutionality raised by the defendants. |
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