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Published by The San Francisco Chronicle | By Mike McPhate | Thursday, November 17, 2005

Customer-support call-centers based in India are suffering a barage of abuse - often racist - from Western callers angry about jobs moving overseas.

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Published by New York Times | By Edmund L. Andrews | Thursday, November 17, 2005

Senators from both parties demanded Wednesday that several oil executives explain statements they made to Congress last week about their ties to the energy task force led by Vice President Dick Cheney.

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Published by The Ottawa Citizen | By David Pugliese | Thursday, November 17, 2005

While hundreds of millions in profits are being made by U.S. and British firms that provide support services to American forces in Iraq, it is citizens from poor nations such as the Philippines who do most of the work and are killed or injured in the process.

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Published by New York Times | By James Glanz | Thursday, November 17, 2005

In what is expected to be the first of a series of criminal charges against officials and contractors overseeing the rebuilding of Iraq, an American has been charged with paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks to American occupation authorities and their spouses to obtain construction contracts, according to a complaint unsealed late yesterday.

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Published by The Dallas Morning News | By Will Deener | Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Fast-growing DynCorp provides security and training for police forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. It may represent the first of a new generation of defense-related stock offerings.

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Published by The Washington Post | By Dana Milbank and Justin Blum | Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.

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Published by USA TODAY | By Elizabeth Weise | Wednesday, November 16, 2005

A former engineer for the DuPont company has accused his ex-employer of concealing test results almost two decades ago that showed toxic chemicals leaching out of a paper coating used to give grease resistance to microwave popcorn bags, fast food and candy wrappers, and pizza box liners.

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Published by The New York Times | By Edmund L. Andrews | Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Senate Democrats demanded on Wednesday that several oil executives explain statements they made to Congress last week about their ties to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force.

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