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Blockbuster battle: will a planned Blockbuster theme park endanger Florida's remaining wetlands?
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October 7, 1994|
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Businessman Wayne Huizenga hopes families will travel to Florida to see Panthers, Marlins, and Dolphins at play. But Huizenga doesn't work for a wildlife center or the National Park Service. He's the millionaire owner of Blockbuster Video and the Florida sports teams named for local wildlife.
On the southeast coast of Florida near Fort Lauderdale, Huizenga plans to build a huge sports and entertainment complex. There, kids and their families can watch a baseball game, see a movie, or splash around in a water park, Huizenga says.
But the 2,500-acre spot ...
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Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...law, mobilizing trade unions, opposition socialists and a broad swath of French society. Opponents...s largest student union, spoke on television...passing over not only French youth, but parents...France 3 television says French governments have a habit...exerted upon by all these ...
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Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Tribune 01-18-2008 French unions prepare for a...BUSINESS PARIS -- French unions surprised many...Sarkozy said, praising unions and businesses in a...2008." Even the CGT union, the only major union...leader of the CGT. Union membership in France...work force, but the ...
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Once-vigilant French unions have been notably silent in downturn
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...2009 Once-vigilant French unions have been notably silent...banners of the biggest French labor union, the CGT, they staged...fizzled, prompting union leaders to postpone...notoriously rebellious unions, even if he made some...some of the biggest French multinationals, ...
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Euro Receives Lukewarm Welcome as French Unions Threaten Strikes.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
; ...Notorious for militancy, French unions know that government...pay and workplace security. French commercial banks contend that the country's trade unions are trying to hold the country for ransom, a charge the union chiefs readily admit, if in...making bank robberies too easy. French ...
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French Unions Recommend End to Rail Strike
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...to a strike that disrupted French train service, saying they...leaders and SNCF management. Union leaders were prepared to recommend...powerful Communist-backed CGT union. The SNCF said disruptions...domestic and commuter lines. Four unions called the walkout to protest...About 3 million people ...
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News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
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French Unions Strike, Protesting Pension Changes
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...he says. In the past, the French public has tolerated such strikes...opinion polls say seven out of 10 French voters think the strikers are...know at least 60 percent of French people agree with me. These...between the government and unions that were taking place even...no firm agreement in sight, ...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...government, and between French unions and employers. Yesterday...the four main rail unions, sought the 35...CGT Communist- led union is also seeking retirement...especially in the mainline French railways (the SNCF), the unions say the recruits should...
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; ...Commission warned the unions that their agreement...inspections of one of the unions in December 2001, the...the young farmers' union (Euro 600,000...He added that the French had been "caught with...at the behest of the French Government and in a...the repression of the unions is ...
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