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Brown, Sarkozy: Tax financial bonuses more

Dec. 10, 2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented a united front Thursday, agreeing that executive bonuses should be taxed more ahead of the European Union's first streamlined summit. The leaders co-wrote an article in the...
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Veterans etch the names of their friends inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on May 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. UPI/Pat Benic