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1998-05-07 Thread Richardson_D
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- =_NextPart_000_01BD7A0E.61DEFC10 charset="iso-8859-1" BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1998 RELEASED TIDAY: Preliminary productivity data - a

Re: "I'm beginning to know how the Indians felt"

1998-05-07 Thread valis
> West Virginia Strip Mine Plan Revives Environmental Debate > > By MICHAEL JANOFSKY > > BLAIR, W.Va. -- Sylvia Weekley's family has lived here, in Pigeon Roost > hollow, for so many decades that the 84-year-old matriarch no longer > recalls precisely when her ancestors first arrived.

Re: Gates Leads Rally Against Government (fwd)

1998-05-07 Thread valis
> forwarded by Michael Hoover > > Subject: Gates Leads Rally Against Government > > By John Borland, Net Insider (05/05/98; 4:47 p.m. ET) > > > > Microsoft executives led a rally of business leaders in Manhattan .. > > release of Windo

Re: BLS Daily Report

1998-05-07 Thread Doug Henwood
The BLS wrote: >Adding to the growing volume of sharply differing research on the >employment effects of raising the minimum wage, two new studies find >that the last round of wage hikes in 1996 and 1997 either caused no job >loss or eliminated nearly 200,000 positions. One of the studies by >ec

Re: Media myopia II

1998-05-07 Thread valis
> >Daimler-Benz is years ahead of even the DoE in fuel cell research; > >it needed this commanding US market entre before unveiling > >a production model with this revolutionary technology. > >Really, class, this is as big as the transistor. > Pardon my ignorance, but what is fuel cell technol

Re: Media myopia II

1998-05-07 Thread Michael Eisenscher
Somewhere in the recesses of my faltering memory I seem to recall some research on an engine that runs on hydrogen drawn from water, with the by-product exhaust being oxygen. Was that science or science fiction that I recalled? Michael E. At 02:15 PM 5/7/98 -0500, valis wrote: >> >Daimler-Benz

Re: BLS Daily Report

1998-05-07 Thread James Devine
Doug writes: >Some quick number play shows that for the last 2 years employment growth in >eating & drinking establishments has lagged the national average, while >earnings and hours have run ahead of the average - a reversal of the trends >of the previous decades. If E&D jobs had grown at the sam

"I'm beginning to know how the Indians felt"

1998-05-07 Thread Louis Proyect
May 7, 1998 West Virginia Strip Mine Plan Revives Environmental Debate By MICHAEL JANOFSKY BLAIR, W.Va. -- Sylvia Weekley's family has lived here, in Pigeon Roost hollow, for so many decades that the 84-year-old matriarch no longer recalls precisely when her ancestors first arrived. Like othe

Re: Media myopia

1998-05-07 Thread Wojtek Sokolowski
At 08:33 AM 5/7/98 -0500, Valis wrote: >Since yesterday I have heard five "in depth" reports on >the Chrysler-Daimler Benz merger, but not a word about >the potential it has for bringing fuel cell cars onto American >roads, with all the economic, environmental and geopolitical >implications inhere

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1998-05-07 Thread Richardson_D
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- =_NextPart_000_01BD79BC.6DC2E0E0 charset="iso-8859-1" BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, May 6, 1998 RELEASED TODAY: Multifactor productivity data for

Media myopia

1998-05-07 Thread valis
Since yesterday I have heard five "in depth" reports on the Chrysler-Daimler Benz merger, but not a word about the potential it has for bringing fuel cell cars onto American roads, with all the economic, environmental and geopolitical implications inherent in such a development. Daimler-Benz is y

philosophical musings from Goldman Sachs

1998-05-07 Thread michael
May 7, 1998 Economic Scene: Should Fed Make Pre-emptive Strike at Inflation? Peter Passell "They should have raised interest rates a year ago," said William Dudley, chief U.S. economist for Goldman, Sachs. "Now it may be too late." Then why hasn't the Fed already made a pre-emptive strike on in

Gates Leads Rally Against Government (fwd)

1998-05-07 Thread hoov
forwarded by Michael Hoover > Subject: Gates Leads Rally Against Government > By John Borland, Net Insider (05/05/98; 4:47 p.m. ET) > > Microsoft executives led a rally of business leaders in Manhattan > Tuesday, warning an economic disaster would strike if government > officials postpone the W

Re: Social movement against Indian dam (endorse, please!)

1998-05-07 Thread boddhisatva
P.S.- What is the deal with "indigenous" cultures in India? Is there a culture in India *less* than a couple thousand years old? peace

Re: Social movement against Indian dam (endorse, please!)

1998-05-07 Thread boddhisatva
To whom..., These "answers" about dam projects are totally inadequate. Natural-gas-fired power plants still produce greenhouse gases and natural gas is not available in all areas or as cheap as coal. It is also a non-renewable resource. Riverine environments ar