| Bloomberg by the Numbers: 45, 37
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| Photograph by Scott Eells/Bloomberg The Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, on Aug. 30, 2012. Forty-five percent of registered voters who say they plan to vote Republican for Congress in the Nov. 4 election say they're more enthusiastic about voting than in previous congressional elections, compared with 37 percent of Democratic backers, according to the Pew Research Center. The data point to an "enthusiasm gap" between the two parties ahead of the Nov. 4 election, in which Republicans are seeking to defend their House majority and capture a Senate majority at the midpoint of President Barack Obama's second term. The White House's party usually loses ground in Congress in midterm elections, when the opposition party's voters want to send the incumbent administration a message. The Republican enthusiasm advantage is smaller than its advantage in 2010, when Republicans made a net gain of 63 House seats and gained ground in the Senate, or the Democratic edge in 2006, when that party won ...
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The Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, on Aug. 30, 2012.
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| One Put, One Call Option To Know About for Walt Disney
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 Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one interesting call contract, from the September expiration for DIS. The put contract our YieldBoost algorithm identified as [...]
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| Refugee Children: Humanitarian Challenge or Border Problem
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| Photograph by John Moore/Getty Images Salvadorian immigrant Stefany Marjorie, eight, with a U.S. Border Patrol agent recording family information on July 24, 2014 in Mission, Texas. Slowly, perhaps, political leaders around the United States are coming to understand the influx of more than 50,000 children from Central America as the humanitarian crisis which it is, as opposed to another sign of perennial border problems. "The influx of unaccompanied child migrants is a growing humanitarian crisis that we can no longer ignore," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a statement issued over the weekend. "While we have our own challenges at home, we cannot turn our backs on children that are fleeing dangerous conditions," the mayor said. "We will do our part to ensure that these children are given access to services and treated fairly and humanely." This translates into a bid by the third-largest city to sponsor a "broad-based pro bono campaign" of legal counsel for children seeking asylum in the U.S. and a plan ...
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Salvadorian immigrant Stefany Marjorie, eight, with a U.S. Border Patrol agent recording family information on July 24, 2014 in Mission, Texas.
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| BSkyB Doubles Down on Virtual Reality Cinema Tech
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 Fresh off its move to build "Sky Europe," British Sky Broadcasting Group Monday said it has invested a further $400,000 into Jaunt, a one-year-old U.S. technology firm developing 360-degree virtual-reality cinema.
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| Gaza Conflict: Delegation Of Tory, Liberal MPs Headed To Israel
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 OTTAWA — A small delegation of Conservative and Liberal MPs are heading to Israel Monday night. The five MPs and one former Liberal senator were invited by the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee (CJPAC) to visit the war zone. They may visit Sderot or Be'er Sheva, towns shelled by Hamas rockets. But they will not visit Gaza. "It will all depend on the security situation on the ground Wednesday," said CJPAC's David Cooper, who will be travelling with them. "We're not going to go anywhere [in Israel] that is not deemed safe." Cooper said he felt it was important for the MPs "to get a ...
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| Businessman charged £75 for three small bottles of water in London hotel
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 When Edward Heaton sat down on the terrace of the sumptuous Crystal Bar of the Wellesley Hotel in central London and ordered three small bottles of sparkling water for himself and a client, he understandably expected them to cost a little more than the 60p each he would pay in his local supermarket.
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