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Public - definition and meaning
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 7/9/09: With Friends Like These: Wal-Mart, Health 'Reform' and Obama's 'Public Option' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'With Friends Like These: Wal-Mart, Health \'Reform\' and Obama\'s \'Public Option\ ''; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: When the enemies of progressive change start signing on to a program that bills itself as being good for ordinary people, it\'s time to question the program.'
With Friends Like These: Wal-Mart, Health 'Reform' and Obama's 'Public Option' 2009
Promoted to Headline (H2) on 3/4/09: John Yoo: Legal Memos Not Intended For 'Public Consumption' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'John Yoo: Legal Memos Not Intended For \'Public Consumption\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: John Yoo doesn\'t have any regrets about the controversial legal opinions he wrote for the White House -- many of which were later withdrawn and repudiated -- that gave former President George W. Bush unfettered and unchecked power in the aftermath of 9/11. '
John Yoo: Legal Memos Not Intended For 'Public Consumption' 2009
Diary Entry by Leon Thompson (about the author) yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Why The Public Option Plan Should Be The First Segment of any Health Care Bill'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'It is essential that a \'complete\' Health Care Insurance Bill with a \'Public Option\ 'provision WITHOUT the so called \'trigger\' mechanism must receive \'top priority\ 'and approved by our elected leaders in Washington D. C.soon as possible prior to the end of this year.'
OpEdNews - Diary: Why The Public Option Plan Should Be The First Segment of any Health Care Bill 2009
The "narrow debate" on percentages did not do justice to the government's revised package for striking public servants, Public
ANC Daily News Briefing 2007
The SA Military Health Service was called in to help in hospitals disrupted by the public service strike, the Public
ANC Daily News Briefing 2007
The majority of designated public servants have disclosed their financial interests in companies in the private sector, Public
ANC Daily News Briefing 2006
Governments succeed only if they use public service delivery to structure a society in which social justice can prevail, Public
ANC Daily News Briefing 2005
Why is it that Private Government run by Republicans can create havoc with the Public and force the public to pay for Private debt?
What if the Democrats Continue to Fail and America Falls? 2005
Why is it that Private Government run by Republicans can create havoc with the Public and force the public to pay for Private debt?
What if the Democrats Continue to Fail and America Falls? 2005
A meeting over pay increases between public service labour unions and government has been postponed to Friday, the Public
ANC Daily News Briefing 2004
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