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ECONOMY |MARCH 17, 2011 Spain Ramps Up Job Efforts By JONATHAN HOUSE and DANIEL DE LA PUENTE MADRID—Spain is redoubling its efforts to lower the country's chronically high unemployment rate and labor costs this month, under intense pressure from the European Union and international investors.

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