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1980s

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First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

CEO Blog: What Small Businesses Need to Recover

In the early 1980s, buffeted by a severe recession and nearly 11 percent unemployment, the economic future of the United States appeared gloomy. Yet America did not collapse; instead, the economy surged. The late 1970s and early 1980s turned out to mark ... [CNBC - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Small Businesses, 1980s, 1970s, Unemployment, Recession

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

He's Back -- By: Ramesh Ponnuru

P.S. I think Matt Yglesias is right to doubt that the unemployment rate will have as much effect on the midterm elections as Douthat thinks it will. As bad as the high-unemployment 1982 elections were for Republicans, for example, we shouldn't forget ... [National Review - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Ramesh Ponnuru, Matthew Yglesias, Unemployment Rate

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Bitter Britain

The US economy soared in the third quarter - up 3.5%, better than expected. China is booming, projected to grow 8.5% in 2009. Europe is mostly growing with some weaker areas. But overall, the world grows again, except poor UK growth was expected. UK GDP ... [Interactive Investor International - 11/19/2009]

Entities: United Kingdom, China, Emerging Markets, Recession

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Lafarge SA

Tarmac retains UK top spot

Despite losing some market share in the last 12 months, Tarmac is still the leading aggregates producer in the UK. According to the latest report from BDS Marketing Research, the company’s market share is now estimated at 23% with most of its business ... [Aggregates Business Europe - 11/19/2009]

Entities: United Kingdom, Aggregate Industries plc, Lafarge SA, Cemex SAB de CV

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Six English Towns: Devizes

Watch ' The late Alec Clifton-Taylor was a much-respected architectural historian and writer.As a broadcaster, he presented a number of successful television programmes for the BBC.One of which was 'Six English Towns' which ran for three series' between ... [BBC - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Alec Clifton-Taylor, 1980s, 1970s

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Photography: Rock stars at home and on tour

The 1970s and 1980s were the golden age of rock and pop. During these decades, Swiss photographer Hannes Schmid accompanied over 250 bands and singers. His images of… ... [The First Post: Latest - 11/19/2009]

Entities: 1970s, 1980s

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

An icon bows

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Playboy founder Hugh Hefner changed American pop culture, one centerfold at a time.With his Playboy Enterprises Inc (PLA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in talks to be sold for about $300 million, the 83 year-old Hefner will be giving ... [Reuters India - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Hugh Hefner, Robert Thompson, Promoter, 1980s, Holly Madison

First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)

EPA Reports Fifth Consecutive Annual Increase in US New Vehicle Fuel Economy; Up 9% Since 2004, Back to Levels of Early 1980s

Adjusted CO2 emissions and adjusted fuel economy by model year. Source: EPA. Click to enlarge.For the fifth consecutive year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reporting an increase in new vehicle fuel efficiency with a corresponding ... [Green Car Congress - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Carbon Dioxide, Emission, US Environmental Protection Agency, 1980s, Light Truck

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 Documents

England's Lost Decade Ahead

In February, the Times explained the lessons the U.S. could take away from Japan's LostDecade . But now it seems that those morals are better suitedfor the U.K., which, the Times is now claiming , is staring down the barrel of it's own LostDecade:Britain ... [American Spectator - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Japan, England, United Kingdom

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 Documents

‘Precious’ Will Leave Lasting Mark

“Everybody’s good at something,” Ms. Rain tells her student, Claireece “Precious” Jones.And Precious is especially good at transforming dark to light, hate to love and the relentlessly callous landscape of her environment into something bearable.There ... [Urban Mecca - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Lee Daniels, 1980s, Hollywood

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 Documents

Idaho jobless rate hits 9 percent

October's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate hit 9 percent in Idaho for the first time since the aftermath of the double dip recessions in the early 1980s.The U.S. Department of Labor on Wednesday revised Idaho's October rate upward by a tenth of a ... [Individual.com - 13 hours ago]

Entities: US Department of Labor, Unemployment Rate, 1980s

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 Documents

As recovery begins, Latin-Kasper says majority of companies have managed and planned for downturn better than in the early 1980s

NATIONAL Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) market data and research director Steve Latin-Kasper doesn't sugar-coat it: This recession, he says, is the worst since World War II, and it has damaged the industry.But he says the encouraging thing is the ... [Trailer / Body Builders - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Recession, Mexico, Inflation

Quotes

...gave Northern Alliance warlords like Fahim millions of dollars in cold, hard cash to help fight the Taliban in the run-up to the U S invasion. "I can take Kabul, I can take Kunduz if you break the Taliban front line for me. My guys are ready" Woodward quotes Fahim telling a CIA agent named Gary after pocketing a million dollars in $100 bills

Afghanistan's Corruption [Middle East Online - 3 hours ago]

The year the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was on its way to dissolution, Gates was telling various congressional committees that a "long, competitive struggle with the Soviet Union still lies before us" and that the 'dictatorship of the Communist party remains untouched and untouchable...

On Bended Knee to Bob Gates [Middle East Online - 3 hours ago]

...'She was pathologically promiscuous,' he told the Richmond Book Now Festival. "She really had the mental age of 12 or 13 and I think she was terrified. I think what she was doing was seeking protection from men, but it went the other way, she was often beaten up, abused and she simply used herself up." In the 1980s she married a wine merchant twice her age but the union lasted only six months...

Martin Amis: sexual revolution killed my sister [Telegraph - 5 hours ago]

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Montserrat rises from the ashes [Taipei Times Online - 24 mins ago]
Social Responsibility [HR Magazine - 35 mins ago]
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The Revenge Of The Proletariat [Tehelka - 1 hour ago]
My Shanghai connection [Trinidad Guardian - 2 hours ago]
Students' union body celebrates its 50th annive... [Irish Independent - 2 hours ago]
Martin Amis: the sexual revolution killed my si... [Telegraph - 2 hours ago]
Afghanistan's Corruption [Middle East Online - 3 hours ago]
Paying Off the Warlords [Middle East Online - 3 hours ago]
On Bended Knee to Bob Gates [Middle East Online - 3 hours ago]
Business Diary: November 10 [Yorkshire Post - 3 hours ago]
Homeless on the Capitol's doorstep [Irish Times - 4 hours ago]
JP Morgan takes over at blue-blooded Caz [This Is Money - 5 hours ago]
Martin Amis: sexual revolution killed my sister [Telegraph - 5 hours ago]
Letter to UN Secretary General regarding Kurds ... [Kurdish Media - 5 hours ago]
George A. Sargent \| Engineer, 94 [Philadelphia Inquirer - 5 hours ago]
The Jihadis and the Cause of South Yemen: A Pro... [Jamestown Foundation - 5 hours ago]
Sri Lanka to free war displaced Tamils from Dec 1 [thestar.com.my - 6 hours ago]
No rice imports for now: India [Straits Times - 6 hours ago]
Ring master: Sam Pitroda [Times of India - 6 hours ago]
Glasgow to take on 1000 more apprentices [Glasgow Evening Times - 6 hours ago]
India says no rice imports for now [AFP via Yahoo! - 7 hours ago]
Top 10 technology also-rans [Computing.co.uk - 7 hours ago]
Lynne Stewart: Heroic Human Rights Lawyer Jailed [Boston IMC - 7 hours ago]
awkward legacy [Irish Independent - 8 hours ago]
Obama leaves Asia empty-handed [World Socialist Web Site - 8 hours ago]
Dollar's golden sunset? [Times of India - 8 hours ago]
Losing Rhodes scholars to Wall Street's siren call [Washington Post - 9 hours ago]
New York-based novelist is well-travelled [Irish Independent - 10 hours ago]
Pilot peat plant could ignite industry througho... [Western Star - 10 hours ago]

Blogs

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Texas high court agrees to rehear Exxon case [Economy-Finance - 1 hour ago] DALLAS— The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp. loaded abandoned ...
Year-End Investment Profit Parachute Strategy [The Market Oracle - 2 hours ago] AM By: DeepCaster_LLC The end of an empire always comes when the currency is destroyed.Congressman, Dr. Ron Paul, November 9, 2007 That probably has to be a basket," ...
The joy of intimidating peacenik troublemakers ... [Wired: Beyond the Beyond - 4 hours ago] Hey wow! Neat surveillance hack! Can’t wait to see the law and order surge as girlfriends of prominent Tory politicians are marked “of interest.” That would ...
23 Dead in Afghanistan Bombings; Most Bagram De... [Informed Comment - 10 hours ago] Afghan insurgents greeted the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as president for another 5 years with a string of attacks and bombings that left 23 dead and dozens ...
iPhone App Developer Backlash Growing [Techdirt - 15 hours ago] Early on, we predicted that Apple's walled garden approach to apps for the iPhone would lead to developer backlash. Even if it was successful at first, the obvious ...

Audio/Video

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Brothers File Lawsuit Against Mormon Church [Associated Press - YouTube - 11/17/2009]
How can we communicate the dangers of nuclear w... [Slate Magazine - 11/16/2009]
Bill Simmons' The Book of Basketball reviewed. [Slate Magazine - 11/11/2009]
Lessons from the fall of the Berlin Wall [Senator Jon Kyl - YouTube Channel - 11/09/2009]
The Lessons of 1989 [Slate Magazine - 11/09/2009]

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