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  • Instead, it produced a virus known as "long-term unem ployment."

    Obama and the Spending Volcano 2010

  • Republican presidential candidates sharply criticized extended unemployment insurance during Monday evening's debate in South Carolina, where the unem...

    GOP Candidates Decry Extended Unemployment Benefits The Huffington Post News Team 2012

  • WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders in the House of Representatives unveiled legislation Friday that would cut 40 weeks from the duration of federal unem...

    GOP Jobs Bill Allows States To Drug-Test Unemployed The Huffington Post News Team 2011

  • The sea lay before them, faintly luminous, ghostly under a scatter of high, unem-phatic stars.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • "It's a Dole plot to raise the unem - ployment rate in time for the election," one staff - er joked.

    Dress-Down Dole 2008

  • Artists often address pressing social ills that affect young people from South Africa's still impoverished black townships: unem-ployment, violence, crime, racism.

    Kwaito Blows Up 2008

  • Guardian | Xenophobes, not workers, are uniting across Europe A chegada dos novos países da União Europeia está a produzir um efeito pernicioso: os activistas de extrema direita estão a organizar-se em toda a Europa, coligando-se em movimentos de extrema-direita que unem forças tão díspares como o Le Pen francês ou os extremistas búlgaros e romenos.

    Leituras Artur 2007

  • The euro doesn't address Europe's two main economic problems: high unem-ployment and expensive welfare states, threatened by aging populations.

    The New Coin Of The Realm 2007

  • Nas Histórias Tradicionais Politicamente Correctas, a branca de neve e a bruxa má unem-se pelo feminismo contra o machismo dos sete anões, digo, dos sete pequenos gigantes.

    Politicamente (in)Correcto Artur 2005

  • COSATU's general-secretary Zwelinzima Vavi was recently quot - ed as saying that he was opposed to plans to introduce inflation targeting because a lower inflation rate could mean high unem - ployment.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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