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34381 Cooper on SUVs -- rank: 1000

Tough Driving SUV owners: Park it - right now, before I hurt you By MARC COOPER If the Tahoes, Suburbans, Excursions, Expeditions, the Escalades, the Land Cruisers, Range Rovers and the BMW X5 are the lethal battle-cruisers of L.A.'s urban sea, then, oblivious Westsiders and others, be advised: What I drive is the equivalent of a Yankee-class attack submarine. Yes, it's true, you SUV drivers are three times more likely than someone piloting an ordinary car to kill another driver. Yes, with your ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 23 08:49:58 PDT 2000

34382 Confusion -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >I agree with you that Afghanistan would be much, much better off had >the U.S. never used it to try to inflict a Vietnam-in-reverse on >Russia. But is that supposed to be an argument that Kim Il Sung and >Kim Jong Il are nice guys? You don't have to think the Kims are nice guys to think the U.S. is in South Korea not to defend "democracy" but to maintain an imperial presence (which means, among other things, reminding Japan who's boss). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 23 08:35:27 PDT 2000

34383 The China Deal: If You Can't Sell It, Buy It -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Let's see if I've got this straight. The comparative advantage argument >is that imports are by definition cheaper than the products they replace, >so consumers have more money to spend on more products that induce more >jobs. But this job loss argument is simply that prices are lowered >because wages are lowered because of the threat of moving. Do you think >that part dominates nowadays? Well, that's the issue. I don't think you can simply assume it d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 22 15:56:53 PDT 2000

34384 Russian women: never had it so bad -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Russia's women say they have never had it so bad By Elizabeth Piper MOSCOW, May 22 (Reuters) - Russian women have never had it so bad, politicians and women's groups said on Monday, decrying post-Soviet reforms for eating away at wages and turning politics into a "men-only club." Russia's top female politicians unveiled measures designed to restore the position of women, which they said had plummeted since Communist times, hit by punishing reforms and a per ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 22 15:06:24 PDT 2000

34385 'The Web was invented by the British but exported to theUS...Wedon't -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Here's an interesting passage from what looks like a one-man >anti-conspiracy site. He claims Quigley's original quote is a fake; that >it doesn't appear in the original pamphlet; and he gives fairly recent >cite for where to find the pamphlet. Interesting. Isn't the notion of a central bank creating money out of thin air a relatively recent innovation? Certainly the B of E wasn't doing open market operations in the late 17th century. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 22 13:59:08 PDT 2000

34386 George, Stan, & the net -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 22, 2000 How the Soros Funds Lost Game Of Chicken Against Tech Stocks By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEW YORK -- For months, through late 1999 and early 2000, the Monday afternoon research meetings at George Soros's hedge-fund firm centered on a single theme: how to prepare for the inevitable sell-off of technology stocks. Stanley Druckenmiller, in charge of the celebrated funds, sat at the head of a long table in a room overlooking Centr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 22 12:29:20 PDT 2000

34387 wanna buy a building? -- rank: 1000

[hmmm.... when people like this sell...] Wall Street Journal - May 22, 2000 Rockefeller Center Is Put Up for Sale In the Booming New York City Market By PETER GRANT Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEW YORK -- The group that owns Rockefeller Center is putting the landmark on the block to cash in on its turnaround of the property and the sharp increase in real-estate values during the past five years, say people with knowledge of the complex. Rockefeller Center Properties Inc. Trust, who ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 22 11:54:14 PDT 2000

34388 Fwd: US Blamed for 2000 Korean Student Deaths in 1980 -- rank: 1000

TRox51 at aol.com wrote: >Doug writes: >[Via Michael Eisenscher. Hey, Tim Shorrock - your name appears in >here. Tell us more, if you can.] > >Shorrock replies: >I'm reading this late Sunday night and don't have time to write a >lot, but this article is a good summary of what I've written based >on the FOIA documents I obtained. >Best place to read them is to do a search under my name - Tim >Shorrock - using google or some other decent engine - and my Kwangju >ar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 22 11:32:33 PDT 2000

34389 Fwd: 2000-05-20 Proclamation on World Trade Week 2000 -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 20, 2000 WORLD TRADE WEEK, 2000 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The prosperity the United States enjoys today is due, in no small part, to our strong trading relationships with other nations. The World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and 270 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 22 11:06:29 PDT 2000

34390 hiring squeeze -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 22, 2000 Worker Shortage Is Seen Continuing, Leading Recruiters to Step Up Efforts By JAMES P. MILLER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The persistent shortage of workers that has been crimping growth plans at many companies won't be ending anytime soon, according to Manpower Inc.'s latest survey of U.S. employers' hiring plans. Demand for employees is still growing, and with unemployment at its current extremely low levels, "the traditional labor supply is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 22 11:03:18 PDT 2000

34391 The China Deal: If You Can't Sell It, Buy It -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sat, 20 May 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> If imports keep domestic prices down, then people (those who don't >> lose their jobs to imports, of course) have more money to spend on >> other goods. We can argue about the relative importance of the two >> influences - lower prices vs. job loss - but to ignore the lower price >> angle is analytically incomplete. > >If I understand it correctly, the comparative advantage argumen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 22 09:41:03 PDT 2000

34392 dot.com IPO market unravels -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - May 22, 2000 IPO Market Unravels Two short months ago, no one worried about the Internet IPO window; it was big enough to drive a fleet of SUVs through. Since then, the tech-dominated Nasdaq has fallen by a third - and it can't seem to get up. Now, you can almost hear the window slamming shut. Companies that had rushed into the IPO pipeline are now recoiling. In April, 13 Internet-related companies withdrew planned initial public offerings, equal to the number pulled during the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 22 07:34:57 PDT 2000

34393 Fwd: US Blamed for 2000 Korean Student Deaths in 1980 -- rank: 1000

[Via Michael Eisenscher. Hey, Tim Shorrock - your name appears in here. Tell us more, if you can.] Published on Sunday, May 21, 2000 in the Sunday Herald (Scotland) Korean Students Blame U.S. For 1980 Massacre Of 2000 Students by Colin Donald KWANGJU, SOUTH KOREA - FOR 20 years, Lee Jai Eui has been justifying to himself his decision to leave the occupied Provincial Hall and "sneak out of the city", abandoning his post as a key organiser in the student leadership of the Kwangju Uprisin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 21 17:38:57 PDT 2000

34394 'The Web was invented by the British but exported to the US...We don't want that to happen again.' -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >Now that you mention it, Brits invented not just the web; there is also: >computers, radar, jet engines, antibiotics, DNA + cloning, central banks The Bank of Sweden - Sveriges Riksbank - is older. The B of E was founded in 1694; the SR in 1668. >(OK, the Scots), the steam engine, the power loom, television and a few >other things besides. Gosh, no wonder they call it Great Britain. Why'd the USA take the lead in developing and producing almost all the inventions y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 21 17:08:48 PDT 2000

34395 China sends US jobs -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment - assorted =20's and stuff removed] Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 12:41:11 -1000 From: Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> Amid explosive trade debate, China sends the United States jobs JOE McDONALD, Associated Press Writer Sunday, May 21, 2000 Breaking News Sections ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (05-21) 09:18 PDT QINGDAO, China (AP) -- Haier Group is sending the United States a new Chinese export: jobs. China ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 21 15:56:48 PDT 2000