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Wednesday Evening, July 27, 2005

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Bye bye employee discount

You knew it couldn't last forever. Starting August 1 the only people getting the General Motors employee discount will be its employees. Amy Scott reports.
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A cleaner way to clean up

There is a way to treat heroin addiction without the ugly side effects of methadone — it's just not accessible. David Brown talks to reporter Douglas McGray.

The public's business: the estate tax

As a possible permanent repeal of the estate tax looms in the Senate, Commentator Robert Reich is thinking somebody's getting a bad deal.

Labor splits. Will its power?

The Teamsters and the Service Employees have left the AFL-CIO, taking more than 3 million workers (and their membership fees) with them. From Chicago, John Dimsdale reports.
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Prime minister? Call him CEO

Thaksin Shinawatra is Thailand's prime minister — and one of country's richest businessmen. He prides himself on, he says, "running the country like a company." Miranda Kennedy reports from Bangkok.

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