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...A sanitation company owned by private equity group Blackstone has been ordered to stop using child labour after federal investigators allegedly found workers as young as 13 employed in abattoirs in Nebraska...
...In the third quarter of 2018 it hit a record 407m cu ft/d — roughly the consumption of the state of Nebraska. By the second quarter of 2019 it will surpass 600m cu ft/d, the consultancy estimates....
...“We’ve been painted into a corner, Canada is in a bind,” said Peter Mackay, a former conservative Canadian foreign minister working on trade issues for Baker McKenzie, the law firm....
...In 1986, Harvey and friends gathered around a burning wooden figure during a spontaneous party on San Francisco’s Baker Beach....
...Ms Milligan, former dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is the longest-serving director and has been on the board since 1992....
...Under the Obama administration, antitrust enforcers had blocked a series of large deals, including Halliburton’s $28bn takeover of Baker Hughes and Comcast’s $45bn acquisition of Time Warner Cable....
...Still others, like Nebraska senator Ben Sasse, who was elected as a Tea Party darling in 2014, continue to promote the notion of a third-party alternative for conservatives....
...In the Senate, a number of centrist Democrats, including Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Evan Bayh of Indiana and Joe Lieberman, the independent Democrat from Connecticut, argued that ending the tax cuts for the...
...“The reason the Senate cannot get anything passed is because the president has not made the case for a continued need for public stimulus amid a weakening recovery,” said Dean Baker, head of the Center for...
...“I don’t see any reason to believe that we have a big institutional blockage” in the US labour market, said Dean Baker, director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who believed rising demand...
...“There are going to be a few tweaks but I’m sure it’s going to look like the Senate bill on most issues, especially on the public option and abortion,” said Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy...
...“It’s hard to see which is going to be the biggest problem at the end of the day – whether it’s going to be the public plan or finding the money,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic...
...Shortly before Christmas, Ben Nelson gained a tidy $100m for Nebraska under a section of the bill entitled “equitable treatment for certain states”....
...The American Bakers Association stopped short of asking for an export moratorium but pressed for curbs on foreign sales....
...The writer is a US senator for Nebraska...
...Andrew Baker I send my condolences for the sorrow and the fear you have endured and will experience....
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