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Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Dec
09

Pacquiao gets Romney pep talk before Marquez bout

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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Defeated U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave Manny Pacquiao a brief pep talk before the Filipino's non-title welterweight bout against Juan Manuel Marquez on Saturday.Romney, who with his wife Ann was a ringside guest of Nevada State Athletic Commission chairman Bill Brady, visited Pacquiao in his dressing room during one of the fights on the undercard at...
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2012 Elections Finally Over: Boustany Defeats Landry in Louisiana Runoff

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GOP Rep. Charles Boustany defeated his GOP rival, freshman tea-partier Rep. Jeff Landry, in a runoff in Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District tonight. Boustany leads 61 percent to 39 percent, with 95 percent of precincts reporting and The Associated Press has called the race.Fittingly, the last race of 2012 was a redistricting battle between two members of the same party - one that ended in a runoff...
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Weakened typhoon set to make second landfall in Philippines

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NEW BATAAN, Philippines (Reuters) - A much-weakened storm was set to make landfall in the Philippines' northwest on Sunday, five days after the year's strongest typhoon killed 540 people and caused crop damage worth about 8 billion pesos ($195.38 million) in the south. The Philippines weather bureau issued storm alerts for northern provinces on the main island of Luzon as Bopha, ...
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China's Wanxiang wins auction for U.S. government-backed A123

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WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - China's largest maker of auto parts won a politically sensitive auction for A123 Systems Inc , a bankrupt maker of batteries for electric cars that was funded partly with U.S. government money, A123's investment banker said on Saturday.Timothy Pohl of Lazard Freres said Wanxiang Group Corp's bid of about $260 million topped a joint bid from Johnson Controls Inc of...
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Republican Boustany wins Louisiana U.S. House runoff

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(Reuters) - U.S. Representative Charles Boustany defeated fellow Republican Representative Jeff Landry on Saturday in a runoff for a U.S. congressional seat in Louisiana.Boustany won a fifth term, capturing 61 percent of the vote in the southwest Louisiana district, with 100 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Louisiana Secretary of State's office. Landry lost his seat after only one...
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