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[PTG News page] Patriot Trading Group: Employers typically clamp down on wages when the economy slows, and the latest downturn was the worst since the 1930s. Most workers are well aware that employers aren't exactly going to be handing out huge wage hikes with an official unemployment rate of 9.7% and the government's broadest measure of unemployment, which includes those marginally attached to the workforce and people working part time who would like full-time employment, at 16.5%, according to the Labor Dept.'s January employment report released Feb.

[Short Sales Riches Blog] Real Estate News & Commentary by Chris McLaughlin, December 24, 2009: 2 at the company, received $3.5 million, and five other top executives saw their total pay package top $2 million.  Williams and three other top executives are eligible to receive an additional payment pursuant to a 2008 retention program, according to the filing.  At Freddie, its slightly smaller rival, CEO Charles Haldeman also received total compensation of $6 million and is due to receive the same pay level in 2010.  Bruce Witherell, Freddie’s chief operating officer and No. 2 at the company, received $4.5 million for each year, while Ross Kari, the chief financial officer, received $3.5 million for each year.  The pay packages had received approval of both the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the agency that oversees their operations while they operate under conservatorship, as well as the Treasury Department, according to the filings.  So much for fiscal responsibility.

[Cricketdiane's Weblog] Strange Conspiracy in a Land of Freedom, Honor and Integrity 2 ...: Thus, between 1950 and 1975, about 6,720 soldiers took part in experiments involving exposures to 254 different chemicals, conducted at U.S. Army Laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal, MD (NRC 1982, NRC 1984, NAS 1993). Congressional hearings into these experiments in 1974 and 1975 resulted in disclosures, notification of subjects as to the nature of their chemical exposures, and ultimately to compensation for a few families of subjects who had died during the experiments (NAS 3).

[Conservative American] Official Obama Administration Scandals List - Page 19 901-950 ...: FACTS: On January 8th, 2009 Obama said that both government and business will create the jobs, but “only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe,” Obama said. “Only government can break the vicious cycles that are crippling our economy —

[The Washington Note] Obama Needs to Channel Nixon - The Washington Note: Opening the doors to Cuba, rolling back the Patriot Act, condemning and ending torture for real, closing Gitmo, hammering the MIC and the uber rich daily, demanding of Israel behavior that he demands of every other country, helping and heealing the middle class.

[Answers.com: Word of the Day] Richard Nixon: Biography from Answers.com: Instead, he took the offensive and pleaded his case on national television, delivering what came to be known as the "Checkers Speech." Nixon maintained his innocence, disclosed his financial situation to show he was in debt, and pointed out that his wife did not have a mink coat but rather wore "a respectable Republican cloth coat." He went on to say that a supporter in Texas had given the family a gift, a dog named Checkers, and that "the kids love the dog, and … we're going to keep it." The public's response was overwhelmingly positive and Nixon remained on the Republican ticket.

[Whatever] The Zombie Robert Heinlein Rises From the Grave Yet Again to Annoy ...: I don’t necessarily agree with the politics of a Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Clint Eastwood or Fred Thompson, for example, but I can enjoy their efforts. Where I have a problem is when someone like one of your recommended authors, Stephen Brust, takes an existing work like Jhereg and suddenly tries to change it to push his political views and drains the fun right out of it.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: The Washington insiders aren't going to like Carl's book,but I bet anything they will read it.Democrats in general won't read the book because they will think everything Carl says is a lie,even the average voter .The Republicans will read his book,be made aware of what has happened in truth,try to educate people who either don't care,or are in total denial,and every body will end up mad.Historians will get in right later and that is the only good thing that will end up happening.

[Making Light] Making Light: Open thread 129: The Olympic National Park beaches only accessible by hikers are even more spectacular, of course (I'm most fond of Cape Alava) but they are, well, only accessibly by hiking, and I don't think my utterly screwed-up knees are going to make the two miles and change, most of it on bouncy board walks, out to Cape Alava from Lake Ozette again.

[Charlie's Diary] Charlie's Diary: Why I hate Star Trek: I've tried my hand at writing in the ST mode (after all the series) to try and patch things up, incorporate physics, utilize some of the more modern outlooks of time (not as a stream but as frame based systems), explain some of the retrograde aspects of the program (like computer technology), plus explore just what went on with Earth, plus bring economics back in as utopian without explaining basis is not SF which requires a grounding in the science (what there is of it) and then looking at the ramifications that go on when you change something. You can still tell 'human interest stories' in doing that, but they start to look more like Larry Niven's 'Known Space' stories where you examine the societal impact of technology (ex.

[Pharyngula] Escape from the planet of the cursed undead heart of the vengeful ...: The word "economy" would also work, since its meaning is "management" rather than "logic". It would have to be qualified as referring to ethical environmental practices, to distinguish it from the more general meaning used by those pesky social scientists with all their money and their confusing words.

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