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	Union Buildings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Union Buildings form the official seat of the South African government and also house the offices of the President of South Africa.
		These buildings, built from light sandstone, were designed by the architect Sir Herbert Baker in the English monumental style and are 275 m long.
		On August 9, 1956 20 000 women staged a march on the Union Buildings to protest against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act (commonly known as the pass laws) of 1950.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Union_Buildings (545 words)

	Oxford Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Oxford Union, is a private debating society in the city of Oxford, whose membership is drawn primarily but not exclusively from the University of Oxford.
		The Oxford Union is an unincorporated association, holding its property in trust in favour of its objectives and members, and governed by its rules (which form a multi-partite contract between the members).
		An invitation to the historian David Irving to speak in a debate on censorship in 2001 was met by a coordinated campaign by left-wing, Jewish, and anti-fascist groups, together with the elected leadership of the Oxford University Student Union, to have the invitation withdrawn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oxford_Union (1836 words)

	Union Buildings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		These buildings, built from light sandstone, were designed by the architect Sir Herbert Baker in the English monumental style and are 275 m long.
		These buildings are considered by many to be the architect's greatest achievement and a South African architectural masterpiece.
		Taking 1,265 workers over three years to build, the structure was completed in 1913 at a total cost of Â£1,310,640 for the building and Â£350,000 for the site.
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /u/n/i/Union_Buildings_b8a1.html (536 words)

	Student Union Initiative
		Green building is also known as “sustainable building” or “environmental building” and refers to the practice of increasing efficiency with which buildings and their sites use energy, water and materials.
		The Memorial Union was built in 1928 mainly with help from students who pledged their own funds and sought donations; most of the money came from students who would have graduated by they time the building opened.
		One of the overall goals for the new south campus union is to build an enduring campus structure that stands the test of time and creates a sense of loyalty in students and for alumni -- similar to that of Memorial Union.
	www.unionvote.wisc.edu /faq.html (2216 words)

	Purdue Memorial Union - PMU - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Similar institutions had already built union buildings, or were at least in the process of building them.
		Those who contributed $100 or more are life members of the Purdue Memorial Union, and the names of those who fulfilled their pledge prior to 1947 are permanently inscribed in bronze in a display on the main floor of the building.
		In 1929, it was deemed necessary and appropriate that the building be deeded to the trustees of the University.
	www.union.purdue.edu /html/PMUHistory.html (1160 words)

	Berea College - Union Church -
		Union Church, though not part of the College, does have the same founder, Rev. John G. Fee.
		Established in 1853, the original meetinghouse was located in a grove of trees north of town.
		Union Church is non-denominational and open to all, in keeeping with the values of the College.
	www.berea.edu /buildings/unionchurch (49 words)

	Sisulu name for Union Buildings?: South Africa: News: News24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Desiree van der Walt, the party's national spokesperson on art and culture, said the Union Buildings were a historical landmark "with a value that reaches far beyond the country's borders".
		The Union Buildings are a symbol of our country's union formed in 1910, which was a major step forward for both white and fl in this country.
		Frankly speaking i see no reason in changing the union buildings name to Sisulu because it require another unnecessary cost and celebrations held there previously like the women's march staged there 50 years ago will be insignificant.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2023546,00.html (1225 words)

	Union Building in Pretoria (South Africa)
		The building's name comes from the time of the South African Union, which was only changed in 1961 to the current name, the Republic of South Africa.
		For many South Africans the Union Building is the most beautiful government residence in the world.
		Sir Herbert Baker was the architect of this 275 m long building and had it built in the English monumental style from light sandstone.
	www.southafrica-travel.net /north/a1pret03.htm (155 words)

	Union Square
		Union Square Buildings I and II comprise approximately 325,583 rentable square feet of class A office space, which makes it the largest suburban class A facility in San Antonioâs office market.
		Union Square II is currently under construction and this six story, 131,185 square foot building is scheduled to be completed by April 1, 2007.
		Union Square II will provide tenants great operating and design efficiencies with maximum space planning flexibility along with a full class A amenity package.
	www.unionsquareone.com (232 words)

	Fort Union NM: Historic Structure Report (Chapter 3)
		The building has a board roof, gable-end chimneys, a log addition (kitchen) to the rear behind which is the stockaded fence for the yard.
		In January, 1861, the buildings of the fort continued to decay, and the dilapidated condition of the quarters took a particularly strong toll on their occupants.
		At that time, the depot quartermaster was to take possession of all of the buildings of old Fort Union (with the exception of the ordnance depot buildings, presumably because they were a separate command) for the use of the quartermaster and subsistence depots and for quarters for general staff officers.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/foun1/hsr3a.htm (3252 words)

	Wisconsin Union Conference Services
		Union South opened in the 1970's to meet the demands of a growing campus.
		Union South is conveniently located near Camp Randall stadium and serves as the home for the traditional football Saturday Badger Bash tailgates.
		In most Wisconsin Union meeting rooms, tables and chairs can be arranged in a variety of different formats to complement the size of your event and the activities scheduled.
	www.union.wisc.edu /meetings/facilities (821 words)

	Famous houses, types of houses, house informations, famous home
		The Union Building of South Africa is the most beautiful government residence in the world.
		The Union Buildings are located on Meintjies Kop, Pretoria, and form the official seat of the South African government.
		The Union Buildings, were built from light sandstone, were designed by the architect Sir Herbert Baker in the English monumental style and are 275 m long.
	www.worldhouseinfo.com /unionbuilding.htm (307 words)

	Union Buildings, Pretoria
		The Union Buildings (by Sir Herbert Baker, 1913), set in beautiful gardens, are commandingly situated on Meintjieskop Hill on the east side of the city.
		This impressive range of sandstone buildings is the seat of government and of Parliament (though in the first half of the year Parliament sits in Cape Town).
		In the gardens which slope down in terraces to Church Street are the Delville Wood Memorial, commemorating the South African soldiers who fell in the First World War, statues of the South African prime ministers Louis Botha, J. Hertzog and J. Smuts, and a Police Memorial.
	www.planetware.com /pretoria/union-buildings-saf-gp-u.htm (123 words)

	THE UNION BUILDING
		He was knighted for his design of the Legislative Building in New Delhi, Soon Afterwards Sir Herbert Baker returned to England where he continued practicing architecture until his death at eighty-four in the same house he was born in.
		In November of 1910 the corner stone of the Union Building was laid.
		The commission for a high-profile memorial commemorating the Women's March to the Union Buildings in August 1956 was awarded to the artist-architect collaborative team of Wilma Cruise and Marcus Holmes.
	www.ibiblio.org /istudio/03pretoria/research/UNION_BUILDING.htm (809 words)

	Sacramento Janitors
		Company unions later surfaced to fight the United Farm Workers in its big campaign to organize Watsonville strawberry workers, in a strategy UFW strategists believe was imported from Sacramento.
		The union is planning a campaign for a national master contract, which would tie conditions together and then raise them at companies throughout the country.
		A joint statement by the union and the company concluded that "we are cautiously optimistic that this agreement between Somers and SEIU is in the interest of all parties." They warned "there remain points of disagreement, but these are outweighed by the fundamentals upon which both sides agree."
	dbacon.igc.org /Unions/19SacJan.html (1072 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
		Union offices occupy the upper floor, and the ground floor is rented to a community television organization.
		The 4,800-square-foot Maui building, which was under construction at the end of 1997, was estimated at that time to cost $1.3 million, according to the union report.
		Union officials are not required to file reports if they have nothing to disclose, but anyone who "knowingly fails to disclose a material fact" can be fined up to $10,000 or imprisoned for up to one year, or both, under penalties imposed by the federal Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.
	starbulletin.com /98/10/20/news/story1.html (923 words)

	CNYC
		Buildings with non-union employees or with employees who are members of other unions will not be affected.
		Tell the Union that the RAB will represent you in all negotiations, and that, although you would not like to have a strike in your building, you stand firmly with the rest of the residential buildings in this city.
		If your building was not yet resident owned or controlled at the time of the last contract negotiation, this booklet will be of particular interest.
	www.cnyc.coop /code/newsletters/1997/1997-labor.htm (1520 words)

	Buildings and Sites
		Union County has hundreds of acres of greenfield sites, industrial park sites, and available buildings to meet your company's needs.
		Union County and her municipalities also operate three industrial parks which provide all of the amenities industry and business seek.
		The new 80-acre Union County Commerce Industrial Park, located on four-lane highway U.S. 176, now has a 50,000 square foot speculative building on site (photo above) - expandable to 150,000 square feet and available with excess capacities of water and sewer as well as access to natural gas, four-lane and interstate highways, and rail.
	www.unioncountydevelopment.com /sites.htm (414 words)

	The Campus of George Mason University
		Shortly after the first buildings of this campus had been erected, a geological survey of this area was taken that shows the campus at the edge of the town.
		In addition, in the words of the architects, the architecture of the buildings was meant to reflect Jeffersonian influence through the use of red brick with buff colored mortar, white vertical columns, and sloped shingled roofs.
		Each of the student union buildings would be located in the center quad of each of the cluster of academic buildings.
	www.gmu.edu /library/specialcollections/gmu_architecture.html (1881 words)

	USATODAY.com - Travel - News - Northwest evicts credit union from buildings, airports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		But credit union officials said regulators have told them that the fees demanded by the airline are illegal.
		The evictions will have little impact on the credit union's 300 employees, and airline employees will continue to be able to bank at the credit union.
		With almost $1.4 billion in assets, NWA Federal Credit Union is the largest credit union in Minnesota and the 46th largest in the country.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/news/2003/2003-04-29-nwa-credit-union.htm (505 words)

	“Greening” the Student Union
		Several of the newly renovated Student Union buildings boast the most hands-free “green” state university bathrooms in the country.
		All of the university’s Student Union renovation projects in the last decade have been undertaken with environmental soundness and water preservation in mind, and the energy-saving measures have, not surprisingly, saved the university a great deal of money in the process.
		In Homesley’s view, the 30 bathrooms in the union building are now 100-percent green.
	www.buildings.com /Articles/detail.asp?ArticleID=2936 (1489 words)

	Union College Resources
		The largest of Union's buildings, the Science and Engineering Center is a complex of several buildings connected by enclosed corridors.
		The F.W. Olin Center is a high-technology classroom and laboratory building.
		The sixteen-sided Nott Memorial is a National Historic Landmark and -- for generations of students, faculty, and staff -- the symbol of Union College.
	www.union.edu /Resources/Campus (239 words)

	Fort Union NM: Historic Structure Report (Chapter 5)
		In 1887, a troop of cavalry occupied the buildings.
		In 1851, he began establishing a small ordnance depot within the boundaries of Fort Union; the ordnance depot, however, was a separate military operation from the fort proper.
		The army continued maintaining the buildings through 1889, but salvage operations were underway on the structures and the buildings were gutted by 1892.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/foun1/hsr5b.htm (1193 words)

	Union Steel Buildings - Steel & Metal Buildings for Industrial, Commercial, and Residential use.
		Union Steel Buildings - Steel and Metal Buildings for Industrial, Commercial, and Residential use.
		Union Steel Buildings, supplies pre-engineered metal buildings for industrial, commercial and residential use.
		The buildings are heavy duty, red iron steel buildings.
	www.unionsteelbuildings.com (193 words)

	Ramokgopa eyes Union Buildings: South Africa: Politics: News24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Pretoria - Her next stop could be the Union Buildings, incoming Tshwane Metropolitan City Mayor Gwen Ramokgopa said on Friday.
		Speaking to the National Press Club in Pretoria only hours before she was due to be elected new mayor of the capital city, Ramokgopa joked that she was "very close to the Union Buildings".
		Media reports this week said Ramokgopa was unhappy with her new position as mayor of Tshwane and saw it as a step down from her previous position as Gauteng health MEC.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_1900122,00.html (367 words)

	Greener Buildings \| News & Columns \| Restrooms Go Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Although, the building was constructed in 1976, after the 1972 oil crisis that resulted in the creation, installation, and implementation of several new energy conservation measures, by current standards, the complex needed updating.
		Green building standards have begun to address the wasting of water for flushing within their water conservation criteria.
		Gary Homesley, assistant director of facilities and maintenance at the Northridge University Student Union, says that the environmental initiative began with the former assistant director, Ray Miller, and they both agreed it was the logical thing to do.
	www.greenerbuildings.com /news_detail.cfm?NewsID=28237 (3958 words)

	[LOCAL BORMAN] Pretoria Union Buildings... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Union Buildings in Pretoria on Meintjies Kop has an illustrious past and were built to commemorate the unification of South Africa under British rule.
		Thus the Union Buildings represent the spirit of unification in South Africa and for many thousands of people they remain a place of significance.
		On May 31, 1910, the Union of South Africa was formed, and, soon after, work began on building an administrative centre for the government.
	www.gal.co.za /newsitem.php?id=405 (685 words)

	Phyllis P. Marshall Center - Your Student Union at USF
		From their orginial primary concentration on debate and discussion and on independence of student thought and action, these unions gradually evolved into large and comprehensive clubs geared to the dining, meeting, social, and recreational needs of students.
		The growth rate of the college union movement, moderate but steady during the succeeding fifty year, accelerated dramatically in the 1950's and 1960's, with the result that student union buildings are now common to most colleges and universities in this country.
		The building was renamed the Phyllis P. Marshall Center and formally dedicated March 3, 1994.
	www.ctr.usf.edu /mc/history.html (605 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Renaming Union Buildings not instant
		Renaming the Union Buildings — the seat of government in Pretoria — could take years, said the Ministry of Arts and Culture on Thursday.
		The Union Buildings house the main government offices, including the Presidency.
		Memela said the proposal would have to go first to the Tshwane metro council, as the Union Buildings are within its geographical area.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/371166.htm (421 words)

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