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In-depth look at U.S. struggle to defeat improvised explosive devices used by insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2002.
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$16.5 billion was set aside for salaries, bonuses and benefits, or an average of $622,000 for each employee.
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NIGERIAâS senate is reportedly to ask a Shell division to pay $1.5 billion (Â£835 million) compensation to oilfield communities for environmental damage.
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Two of Britain's big unions are to start talks which could lead to merger and a 2.5 million member 'super union'.
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HONG KONG China Power International Development, a unit of China&#39;s fifth-biggest electricity generator, is seeking as much as 2.57 billion Hong Kong dollars, or $330 million, in an initial public offering of stock, bankers involved in the sale said Monday
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A four-day national strike has begun in Nigeria in protest at a 25% increase in the cost of oil. Oil executives in Nigeria said they were confident there would be no immediate disruption to exports.
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Korean is to spend $5.5bn on 25 Boeing planes - the biggest such deal in the country's aviation history.
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A statement posted on a Web site purportedly by an Iraqi group which says it is holding two French hostages has set a $5 million (2.
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About 2,000 unionized Pennsylvania Turnpike employees, including 1,200 toll collectors, went on strike Wednesday for the first time in the route&#39;s 64-year history.
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The two-year effort will reduce its work force by 10 percent and cut $5 billion in costs. Analysts see measures as essential to compete against Advanced Micro Devices.
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Postal workers are staging another 24-hour strike as part of an ongoing row over pay and jobs.
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By Timothy R. Gaffney, Dayton Daily News, Ohio  Sep. 9--An Air Force contract worth $627.8 million should generate local  high-tech jobs and shows what was at stake in last year's military  base-closing process, a Dayton Development Coalition executive said Friday.
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A tentative contract to end the monthlong strike would raise the janitorsÂ hourly wages by nearly 50 percent over two years and provide them health coverage.
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BHP Billiton plans an aggressive $US1.5-2 billion ($2.1-2.8 billion) near-doubling of its coking coal production over the next five years to meet the China-inspired surge in demand for carbon steel-making materials through mine expansions and developments
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Â· Cost of decommissioning up by Â£12bn in two yearsÂ· Auditors criticise 'stop and start' work on sites
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Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT.N's F-35   Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, funded by the United States and   eight other countries, could cost as much as an extra $12   million to $16 million apiece at first if production plans are   curtailed in early years, the general running the project said   Friday.
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NEW DELHi, AUGUST 21: Truckers went on a nation-wide strike from Saturday to protest against the imposition of the 10 per cent service tax in the Budget.