Now it's over 10 and if you graph that to the increases in federal wage, that gap continues to increase.

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"It's quite clear now that anything you try and get over a million people to is going to get lawyered out of existence, " he said.

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Now, it is true that the European Central Bank's deeds and words over the past year - the provision of emergency longer-term loans to eurozone banks and an offer of support to governments with clear plans to restore financial credibility - has staunched the worrying drain of funds out of Spanish and Italian banks.

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Now, that's a province that was among the most violent in Iraq, and now it's largely pacified and earlier this week was turned over to Iraqi government control.

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"That is what the OECD is now forecasting and, with our economy flatlining for over a year, it's time the chancellor listened to wise advice, " Mr Balls said.

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It could either be that now everybody takes a deep breath after tomorrow and says, okay, let's start over again with the big states of Ohio and Texas.

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But the most importantly it's the Afghanis who should realise that the war with Russia is over now and they themselves have to define their future now, a future where they do not have to pass to the next generation what they have learned.

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Mr. TERRY PEACH (Agriculture Secretary, Oklahoma): We actually had a pretty good spring as far as hay production, but as this drought continues and then as the tremendous fires over the entire state have not only burned up pastures that our ranchers have now, it's burned up much of our hay piles that farmers had stored for their winter hay needs for their cattle operation.

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