As a simple, cheap and reliable device, the Russian abacus was in use in all shops and markets throughout the former Soviet Union, and the usage of it was taught in most schools until the 1990s.

Among current and more notable IWW shops in Canada is the Ottawa Panhandlers ' Union, which continues a tradition in the IWW of organizing disenfranchised workers on relief or in work camps started during the Great Depression.

Omaha's first Italian enclave grew south of downtown, with many Italian immigrants coming to the city to work in the Union Pacific shops.

Railroad mileage was located mostly in rural areas and over two-thirds of the South's rails, bridges, rail yards, repair shops and rolling stock were in areas reached by Union armies, which systematically destroyed what they could.

Union shops were heavily restricted, and states were allowed to pass right-to-work laws that outlawed closed union shops.

Centennial Plaza is one of the main gathering points of the students due to the plaza's close proximity to the on-campus restaurants, coffee shops, dining halls, university post office, and offices for Student Life, SGA, and Union Board.

This, however, did not stop any rumors of the Union Pacific building their shops in the Midland area using the old Portland and Puget Sound right of way.

Former 1903 " People's Union " cooperative building that evolved into a small Shurfine grocery and now contains retail shops and restaurants on 271st Ave NW, Stanwood.

The shops at the Canterbury campus, with the Kent Union offices housed in the offices above.

Another substantial corridor extends from Two Union Square to Rainier Square with connections to hotels, the 5th Avenue Theatre, and many retail shops along the way.

The station building also houses a long line of shops and bars down the Union Street side.

A small community from the former Soviet Union has also established itself in the nearby area and there are several shops of this community in the Carlisle Street area.

As was the case with other unions of the day, the Cigarmaker's Union nearly collapsed in the financial crisis of 1877, in which unemployment skyrocketed and ready availability of desperate workers willing to labor for subsistence wages put pressure upon the gains in wages and shortening of hours achieved in union shops.

Union shops, in which new recruits must join the union within a certain amount of time, are permitted, but only as part of a collective bargaining agreement and only if the contract allows the worker at least thirty days after the date of hire or the effective date of the contract to join the union.

The two first feminine trade unions that ever existed in Uruguay-" Unión de Telefonistas " ( Telephone Operators Union ) and the " Costureras de sastrerías " ( Seamstresses from Tailor's shops ) were created by Luisi, and thanks to their action, many benefits were obtained for their members.

These traditions persisted into the twentieth century in fields such as printing, in which the International Typographical Union would enforce its own rules determining how work was done in union shops, and in the construction industry.

Surrey Hills ' Central Business District is relatively small, consisting of a 300 metre strip of shops along Union Road.

All forms of closed shops in the UK are strictly illegal under section 137 ( 1 )( a ) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations ( Consolidation ) Act 1992 ( c. 52 ) passed by the Conservative government at the time.

The Union also has three shops.

It is home to metro-wide indie radio station WRFG FM 89. 3, two independent bookstores ( Charis Books and More and A Cappella Books ), record stores ( Criminal Records, Wax ' n ' Facts ), coffee shops ( Java Lords, Aurora Coffee, Starbucks ), a health and wellness center ( Sweetgrass Wellness Spring ), new and used clothing stores ( Rag-O-Rama ), novelty shops ( Junkman's Daughter ), a new-age shop ( Crystal Blue ), a locally owned credit union ( BOND Community Federal Credit Union ), and Horizon Theatre ), a major music venue ( Variety Playhouse ), a community music school ( The Little 5 Points Music Center ), a smoking store ( 42 °), and several local restaurants and bars.

Locomotive maintenance is centered in Janesville ; WSOR's Horicon paint shops often do contract work on both rolling stock, for railroads such as Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad, and locomotives, including Union Pacific Railroad.

Falealupo-Uta has small shops and facilities for Western Union money transfer while there are beach fale accommodation and a shop at Falealupo-tai.

they still benefit far less than the `` other '' 50 per cent of the nation from that `` welfare state '' which the Soviet Union so greatly prides itself on being.

The evidence suggests that foreign peoples believe the United States is weaker than the Soviet Union, and is bound to fall still further behind in the years ahead.

Yet Dartmouth still is the dominant member of the Intercollegiate Ski Union, which includes the winter sports colleges of Canada as well as those of this country.

On April 15, Lincoln called on all the states to send detachments totaling 75, 000 troops to recapture forts, protect Washington, and " preserve the Union ", which, in his view, still existed intact despite the actions of the seceding states.

In his speech accepting the nomination, Johnson said that by taking a nominee from a seceding state, " the Union Party declared its belief that the rebellious states are still in the Union, that their loyal citizens are still citizens of the United States.

The monochrome combinations still existing in the 1950s are standardized by the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) as capital letters A through N. When color television was introduced, the hue and saturation information was added to the monochrome signals in a way that black & white televisions ignore.

This means that they break down when exposed to light or air, but these plastics are still primarily ( as much as 98 per cent ) oil-based and are not currently certified as ' biodegradable ' under the European Union directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste ( 94 / 62 / EC ).

Indeed, in the largest biological weapons accident known – the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city ( known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today, see Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak ).

In spite of the rather slow post-recession recovery, in terms of income per capita Croatia is still ahead of some European Union member states such as Bulgaria, Romania and Latvia.

The Council of the European Union ( sometimes just called the Council and sometimes still referred to as the Council of Ministers ) is the institution in the essentially bicameral legislature of the European Union ( EU ) representing the executives of member states, the other legislative body being the European Parliament.

It had not succeeded in converting the British public to unilateralism and even after the collapse of the Soviet Union British nuclear weapons still have majority support.

By the final stages of the war only the Soviet Union was still fielding mounted units in substantial numbers, some in combined mechanized and horse units.

The same is true of a massive history of the Union which Defoe published in 1709 and which some historians still treat as a valuable contemporary source for their own works.

During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Union feared that the seceded Confederate States of America ( CSA ) would plan a northerly attack from Canada, which was still owned by the British Empire and remained neutral in the war.

The Independence Party and Centre Party were against accession to the EU, but only the Independence Party still wants Estonia to withdraw from the European Union.

The Left Party of Sweden was against accession to the European Union and still wants Sweden to leave the European Union.

However, because the constitution still stipulates only that the President leads foreign policy and the government internal policy, the responsibility over European Union affairs is not explicitly resolved.

Although many shelters still exist, some even being used as museums, virtually all fallout shelters have been decommissioned since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Even though Spain, the United Kingdom and Gibraltar are all part of the European Union, the border fence is still relevant today since Gibraltar is outside the customs union.

Although Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed the war was not yet over because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's army was still fighting the Union Army.