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The battle for New Jersey
October 11, 2002New Jersey voters had good news last week. The good news was that Robert Torricelli, one of the worst Democratic Senators in the Northeast, had dropped his reelection bid. Besides having a record of aggressively supporting...
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The upside-down world of Baby Boy Bush
October 11, 2002Bush the Younger needs some elementary grammar lessons. Words such as “may,” “possibly,” “could,” “might,” “suspect,” are all conditional words, indicating some uncertainty or lack of proof for whatever is being asserted. For example, when he...
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Rally calls for extension of benefits
October 10, 2002PHILADELPHIA – Unemployed workers and their supporters rallied here Oct. 4 to call for the extension of the federal Temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (TEUC) Program, which will expire Dec. 31. “Twenty-six weeks is not enough,” shouted...
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September jobless rate at 5.6 percent
October 10, 2002Reprint The nation’s jobless rate was 5.6 percent in September, the Labor Department said, dropping 0.1 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 8.092 million people were jobless in September, and one-fifth of them – more...
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Civil disobedience supports Yale workers
October 10, 2002NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Eight hundred people filed out of the Center Church here, and lined up on College Street at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 26. Facing them on the sidewalk were 2,000 supporters. Downtown traffic...
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