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Curtain Rises in Los Angeles for Last Democratic Presidential Debate of 2019

Elizabeth Lee

   LOS ANGELES -- It was touch and go for a while, but the final
   Democratic presidential debate of the year is on for Thursday night,
   with seven of the leading contenders thrashing it out on stage at
   Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

   A labor dispute between a university contractor and a food services
   union representing roughly 150 workers threatened to torpedo the
   Democratic debate after all seven of the presidential candidates vowed
   not to cross a picket line to take part in the nationally televised
   Democratic National Committee event. However, the union and company
   reached agreement Tuesday on a new three-year contract, prompting a
   sigh of relief from Democratic officials who had feared the sixth
   debate of the year was in jeopardy.

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