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We advocate our clients’ public policy issues through a broad array of contacts at the federal, state and local levels in order to build better partnerships among governments and businesses. The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission has approved payments for approximately 44,600 Phase I flue-cured and burley quota owner and producer claims totaling [...]

Hill, 65, has lived in the Shetland Islands on the edge of the Atlantic since 2001, when his boat capsized there during an unsuccessful attempted to circumnavigate Britain. He is Forvik’s only resident, and his home is a tent on the storm-battered island. “The monarchs and governments of Scotland, and Great Britain and the United [...]

Please try again later. Are you ready for this man as your Prime Minister? It could happen at any point during the next two years. The way things are going, it could even happen before Christmas. We’re all agreed the country’s in a bit of a mess at the moment. But is he the man [...]

It was a remarkable statement from a man whose life has been turned upside down by a justice system which was hijacked by politicians and turned loose on this unsung American hero. After a trial that included shoddy lawyering by the prosecution and a government investigation obviously tainted by politics, Cory Voorhis is today a [...]

The referendum comes just 8 months after nationwide pro-democracy protests in September were stopped with military force, and days after the cyclone left widespread destruction and, according to some reports, up to 100,000 people dead. Aid from the military rulers has been slow to reach the victims and international aid groups are having trouble receiving [...]

Hezbollah sources concede that they were taken by surprise and some were shocked by the intense, incendiary bombardment of the last few days by pro-government operatives. As Hezbollah studies the situation and how to respond this beautiful spring Beirut morning, there is a real danger things may rapidly spiral out of control. The strike was [...]

Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops. Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing [...]

Some have struck agreements with the government to improve their efforts to fight money laundering, avoiding prosecution. A spokeswoman for Wachovia, Christy Phillips-Brown, said, Wachovia is committed to maintaining a strong anti-money-laundering program. The governments latest assault on drug-money laundering focuses on casas de cambio, or money-exchange houses, which dot the U.S.-Mexico border to facilitate [...]

It was obtained through individuals unrelated to the case. In its written concession, the government said the child had a pre-existing mitochondrial disorder that was aggravated by her shots, and which ultimately resulted in an ASD diagnosis. But its implications for the larger vaccine-autism debate, and for public health policy in general, are not as [...]

It was obtained through individuals unrelated to the case. In its written concession, the government said the child had a pre-existing mitochondrial disorder that was aggravated by her shots, and which ultimately resulted in an ASD diagnosis. But its implications for the larger vaccine-autism debate, and for public health policy in general, are not as [...]

But is no big wonder that it is this way as most goods are moved by truck and big trucks are a beating for tarmac. And to make it worse the US has spend in the past decades simply to little on its own road system - and now its payday for this and bridges [...]

But is no big wonder that it is this way as most goods are moved by truck and big trucks are a beating for tarmac. And to make it worse the US has spend in the past decades simply to little on its own road system - and now its payday for this and bridges [...]

It was obtained through individuals unrelated to the case. In its written concession, the government said the child had a pre-existing mitochondrial disorder that was aggravated by her shots, and which ultimately resulted in an ASD diagnosis. But its implications for the larger vaccine-autism debate, and for public health policy in general, are not as [...]

But is no big wonder that it is this way as most goods are moved by truck and big trucks are a beating for tarmac. And to make it worse the US has spend in the past decades simply to little on its own road system - and now its payday for this and bridges [...]