Already Pollack had recorded the official statistics and written separate game stories sent by Western Union to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Associated Press and United Press.
"Look at the teams involved this year they are all big, big football clubs, " Vieira said last week at the launch of a Europa League sponsorship initiative by Western Union.
For example, right now, the wire transfer industry is dominated by monolithic firms like Western Union.
For these reasons, the current rules governing technology transfers by Western nations to the Soviet Union prohibit such a transaction.
The coup took place just before the second round of presidential elections scheduled for later this month, sparking international condemnation and calls for a return to civilian rule by the African Union, Western powers and the regional Economic Community of West African States.
As a practical matter, Moscow's ability to attract interbank deposits, renew short-term credit lines and secure Western loans has been sharply curtailed by the Soviet Union's non-creditworthy status and its massive arrearages to Western firms.
In the mid-1980s, American intelligence discovered a huge missile- detection and -tracking radar being built by the Soviet Union near the Western Siberian town of Krasnoyarsk.
But all that cash, handed over in crumpled wads by calloused hands, has made Western Union a tempting target for regulators, politicians and advocates for the indigent.
The Western Union deal was engineered by First Data veteran Charles Fote, 55, who rose to chief executive two years ago.
Many banks have also eyed the wire-transfer market with envy, but Western Union has fought back by opening a slew of new outlets in recent years.
Like communist Yugoslavia in its dotage, the Soviet Union was being kept afloat by western credit that it would never be able to repay.
By year-end more than 80, 000 Western Union agent locations are open in over 140 countries.
It kept the defensive shield of NATO intact, and any alterations in Western strength were based on reciprocity by the Soviet Union.
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Services by First North Western were left in tatters on Tuesday after union members began the first of three one-day strikes.
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Its membership has slumped by a third in the past decade to 2.7m and its status as Germany's (and the western world's) biggest union is being challenged by a new service-sector union expected to embrace some 3.2m workers.
The deleterious effect of these cuts on the readiness, sustainability and deterrent value of the U.S. military and its supporting industrial and technology base is likely to be compounded by the emerging plan for a Western financial aid package for the Soviet Union.
Assad shares with others in this informal alliance an abiding antipathy toward the West and its institutions and a common need to find alternative means of financing anti-Western operations in the absence of the sponsorship previously provided by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact.
Western Union disclosed in February that the Department of Justice, joined by "several" states, is looking into the company's "contractual relationships" with the agents.
The extension of credits by non-banking institutions to the Soviet Union are not recorded in any Western statistics as adding to the total indebtedness of the USSR and thus constitute hidden Soviet borrowing .
Inevitably, there will be strenuous efforts made by the Bush Administration, other Western governments and numerous private banks to stampede the former Soviet Union into a commitment to secure all debt obligations beyond the very limited rescheduling of principal payments already agreed for 1992.
Such a conditioned approach to Western assistance to the Soviet Union and East bloc, like a step-by-step loan disbursement arrangements predicated on Moscow's performance toward publicly identified economic and political milestones, will not be unduly onerous if the Soviets are genuinely interested in promoting non-strategic commercial activity and similar developments within the civilian economy.
Some believe he will be toppled and replaced by avowedly unfriendly communists who will lead the Soviet Union once more into adventurism at the expense of Western interests.
Some worry that Gorbachev will be toppled and replaced by avowedly more hard-line communists who will lead the Soviet Union into increased aggression at the expense of Western interests.
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Resolution 181 recommended terminating the Palestine Mandate for the western part of Palestine through establishment there of a Jewish state and an Arab state, joined by an economic union, and internationalization of Jerusalem.
According to a paper by Bruce Western of Harvard and Jake Rosenfeld of the University of Washington, published in 2011, private-sector union membership among men fell from 34% to 8% between 1973 and 2007.
Even such intensive advisory services by these and other Western institutions, however, should be carefully targeted to the reformist republics and localities of the Soviet Union not the increasingly repressive Kremlin.
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