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Bills Pass on Debt and War Funds - NYTimes.comBills Pass on Debt and War Funds WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday narrowly approved a short-term, $290 billion increase in federal borrowing power, setting the stage for a major fight over national fiscal policy in 2010. As the House finished its business for the year, lawmakers, in a ...
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Pakistan Showing Its Upset by Harassing U.S. Diplomats - NYTimes.comPakistan Reported to Be Harassing U.S. Diplomats ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Parts of the Pakistani military and intelligence services are mounting what American officials here describe as a campaign to harass American diplomats, fraying relations at a critical moment when the Obama administration is ...
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Unemployed Face End of Subsidy for Cobra Health Insurance - NYTimes.comStrains Felt in Health Coverage for Jobless While lawmakers in Washington continue to debate how to make health care affordable for more Americans, thousands of unemployed New Yorkers like Rhonda R. Baumser are suddenly struggling to hang onto their health coverage. Ms. Baumser, a lifelong ...
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SEC Just Now Seeking Key Information On Meltdown : NPRSEC Just Now Seeking Key Information On Meltdown A A December 16, 2009 Almost three years since banks started taking losses that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the Securities and Exchange Commission is still asking basic questions about what happened. The ...
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White House as helpless victim on healthcareIn an ideal world, Congress would be -- and should be -- an autonomous branch of government, exercising judgment independent of the White House's influence, but that's not the world we live in. Does anyone actually believe that Rahm Emanuel (who built his career on industry support for the ...
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What Oracle gave up for the Sun it wanted | Open Source | ZDNet.comSome pie crust promises and $72 million should get the European Union off Oracle’s back and let it take over Sun Microsystems. Outgoing EU competition commissioner Nellie Kroes called the moves “significant concessions” but there is little real here. The $72 million will be spent over three ...
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Obama's Big Sellout : Rolling StoneBarack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided ...
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Obama's Indecent Interval | Foreign Policy"In his speech, the president offered three reasons why the two conflicts are different. And all are dead wrong"
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Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue "soft" power - Politics and BusinessShashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue "soft" power
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M.T.A. Proposes Severe Service Cuts; 2 Subway Lines May Be Eliminated - City Room Blog - NYTimes.comLonger waits on subway platforms. More crowded buses and trains. No more discounts for New York City students. One way or another, nearly every bus, subway and commuter train rider will be affected by the newly austere budget released on Monday by the beleaguered Metropolitan Transportation ...
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