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On Wednesday, January 2, 2002 at 09:10:51 (-0500) Richardson_D writes:
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2001:
Mass layoff events totaled 2,699 in November resulting in job losses for
293,074 workers while 350 of those events were directly or indirectly
related to
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2001:
Mass layoff events totaled 2,699 in November resulting in job losses for
293,074 workers while 350 of those events were directly or indirectly
related to the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to the Bureau of
Labor
William S. Lear wrote:
On Wednesday, January 2, 2002 at 09:10:51 (-0500) Richardson_D writes:
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2001:
Mass layoff events totaled 2,699 in November resulting in job losses for
293,074 workers while 350 of those events were directly or
From SLATE, 1/1/02:The [Washington POST] fronts Anniston, AL, where people
eat Alabama clay, i.e., dirt, because they are so poor-and it's not even
good dirt at that, contaminated with PCBs for over 40 years by the Monsanto
Corporation. Thanks to a lawsuit-with 3,600 plaintiffs-an unusually
Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution
PCBs Drenched Ala. Town, But No One Was Ever Told
By Michael Grunwald
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 1, 2002; Page A01
ANNISTON, Ala. -- On the west side of Anniston, the poor side of
Anniston, the people ate dirt. They called it Alabama clay
Thursday, January 17
Teach-in: Palestine, Human Rights, International Law
Speaker: John Quigley, professor of international law at the OSU
College of Law; and author of _Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to
Justice_ (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990), _The Ruses for
War: American
a few weeks ago.
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
Doug - Interesting chart. I'd be interested in your 'reading' of it.
The chatter in the market is that the rise in yields reflects
expectations of a quick and strong recovery, and a Fed tightening
within a year. Who knows if that's what's really
doug was right to suggest the possibility of a narrowing of the
spread since october. spread has narrowed a couple or so percentage
points (something like from almost to 7 to about 5 % points), as
reported today in either nyt or wsj which was quoting from
bloomberg's index. lots of
http://www.outlookindia.com
Shall We Leave It to the Experts?
Arundhati Roy
India lives in several centuries at the same time. Somehow we manage
to progress and regress simultaneously. As a nation we age by pushing
outwards from the middle-adding a few centuries on to either end of
our
Paul Krugman is probably right in the article Rakesh copied to the list,
that citizens of the USA care little about Argentina and know less how the
USA itself is blamed for the crisis. Nevertheless in the policy making
circles of the IMF, there may be some embarrassment at the debacle in
I am unable to receive any e-mail since I am away and the computer on
which my mail server resides does not respond.
See you soon, I hope.
Michael Perelman
Argentina divided over latest saviour
Fifth president in a fortnight says country is bankrupt
Uki Goni in Buenos Aires
Thursday January 3, 2002
The Guardian
A veteran senator took office as Argentina's fifth president in two
weeks by declaring that his country was bankrupt and by pledging to
It is interesting that this article leaves to the very end what are
precisely the reasons why Duhalde will probably not make it till 2003:
He was Menem's vice president (yes, the Menem who liberalized the economy,
gave away state enterprises--even revenue generating ones, and basically is
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