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April 14, 2005

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April 14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1172 words)
April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years).
Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
1986 - In retaliation for the April 5 bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were killed, Ronald Reagan ordered major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, which killed 60 people.
WORKCITE - April 14, 2005 (578 words)
Although the EEOC initially adopted the Third Circuit’s decision as its national enforcement policy, the agency soon recognized that the policy was causing employers to drop their retiree health plans or to refrain from starting them.
As a result, in April 2004, the EEOC approved a final rule exempting retiree health benefits from the prohibitions of the ADEA.
On March 30, 2005, the federal district court judge hearing the case held in favor of AARP and permanently enjoined the EEOC from issuing or implementing the final rule.
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