Fears about a global economic slowdown, heightened by worsening US job figures, have continued to undermine stock markets around the world. The Dow Jones index was down a further 100 points, 1%, after figures showed the US economy shed 84,000 jobs ...
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In two decades as a government administrator, Roy Lafontaine figures he has dealt with dozens of nonprofit agencies delivering services to the disabled. Few, if any, he said, have been as sharp and competent as Baltimore-based Chimes Inc. and its ...
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NEW YORK — U.S. companies have cut more than 550,000 jobs so far in 2008 as they try to preserve their profits in a slumping economy, but analysts say such downsizing must be done carefully for corporations to have any long-term benefits. A ...
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CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats - one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the ...
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Everybody just seemed glad it's over. Cops, firefighters, community activists, business leaders, school teachers -- all expressed relief. Many spoke, too, of hope in interviews with a team of Free Press reporters who fanned out across metro Detroit ...
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Sir -- Some years after arriving in the north-west, I might sometimes have asked a parent how their school-leaving children were doing, to be told that 'he/she had just got the call' in hushed and reverential reply. Initially, I might have asked how ...
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain visited Sterling Heights Friday and Obama was in Detroit on Labor Day. Obama's visit is a free event but tickets are required, campaign organizers said. Tickets are scheduled to be distributed beginning ...
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