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35056 Nader is a union buster -- rank: 1000

TRox51 at aol.com wrote: >Anyone wanting further information, feel free to e-mail me. Tim is quoted at length on this and other Nader topics, at <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Nader.html>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 15 11:46:01 PDT 2000

35057 whaddya expect from a guy named Bruce? -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Jim Naureckas of FAIR.] "He's turned into some kind of dirtbag.... He goes on the boycott list.... He has all these good songs and everything, American flag songs and all that stuff, and now he's a floating fag." --New York Fraternal Order of Police president Bob Lucente on Bruce Springsteen, whose song "41 Shots" refers to the killing of Amadou Diallo (in an interview with SonicNet, quoted in the New York Post, 6/11/00)

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Date:	Thu Jun 15 10:35:20 PDT 2000

35058 WB on its critics, again -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] WORLD BANK REGRETS REPORT AUTHOR'S DEPARTURE. Ravi Kanbur, the author of the World Bank's annual World Development Report has left following a fierce internal row over the report's content, reports the Financial Times (p.7). Kanbur, a former academic at Cornell University in the US, left after a dispute over the appropriate role of free markets in developing countries. Bank staff said Kanbur's emphasis on income redistribution brought him into conf ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 15 08:25:17 PDT 2000

35059 US public sees U rise as unlikely -- rank: 1000

[Hmm, Alan G may have to tighten further; the masses are too confident, or at least the more upscale masses.] Friday June 9 4:11 PM ET Most Feel Nation's Employment Level Is Secure UTICA, N.Y. (Reuters/Zogby) - Most people are not expecting a substantial climb in unemployment, according to a recent Zogby/Reuters US Poll. More than half (55.3%) of respondents felt such a rise is not likely to occur over the next four years. Conversely, 39.9% of respondents did not rule this out as unlikely. Altho ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 11 16:31:56 PDT 2000

35060 Don B on the rise of capitalism -- rank: 1000

The things you find on the web... <http://www.jessamyn.com/barth/capitalism.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 11 13:50:51 PDT 2000

35061 Sullivan goes all lefty -- rank: 1000

Peter K quoted Andrew Sullivan: >A specter, to put it bluntly, is haunting America: the specter of >dot-communism. Hmm, no mention of Richard Barbrook? <http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199909/msg00046.html> Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 11 13:43:00 PDT 2000

35062 Los Angeles -- rank: 1000

John Kawakami wrote: > >Something I've been working on: > > http://la.indymedia.org/ > >And what it's going to cover: > > http://www.d2kla.org/ Hmm interesting. What's going on in LA? I hear lots more about greeting the Repubs in Philly, and I've heard some people worry that some of the less hardassed feel funny about protesting Dems than the Party of W. Is this true? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 11 13:15:02 PDT 2000

35063 thanks... -- rank: 1000

Thanks to all of you who sent Win 98 keys. Got it running. I'm not even committing an IP violation, and I'm still in fear that some GatesBot will bust me. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 10 11:13:28 PDT 2000

35064 SEIU jobs -- rank: 1000

An LBO subscriber who works for the Service Employees International Union asked me to pass along the news that they're always looking for researchers. Anyone who's interested, contact me, or check out their website <http://www.seiu.org>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 10 11:01:57 PDT 2000

35065 Win 98 key -- rank: 1000

Sorry for this unorthodox request, but I'm trying to re-install Virtual PC, which allows you to run Win 98 programs on a Mac, and I've lost my damn Windows certificate of authenticity, with the magic key number on it. Anyone have a spare? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 9 16:16:43 PDT 2000

35066 Fwd: Federal Reserve policy, the economy and the election cycle -- rank: 1000

From: "Financial Markets Center" <fmcenter at mindspring.com> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@mindspring.com;> Subject: Federal Reserve policy, the economy and the election cycle Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:07:35 -0400 Compared to the past 11 presidential election cycles, Federal Reserve policy has been exceptionally tight in 1999-2000. After raising interest rates 75 basis points in March and May, the Fed is now tightening even faster that Paul Volcker did in the inflation-fight ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 9 12:53:36 PDT 2000

35067 WB on Fiji -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] SOCIAL TRAGEDY CLOSING IN ON FIJI, SAYS WORLD BANK. The World Bank says Fiji is on the verge of social collapse, with hundreds of families in danger of falling below the poverty line, reports the Courier-Mail (Australia). A June 8 survey shows that the May 19 coup has had a devastating impact on the nation and could result in as many as 40 percent of Fijians living below the poverty line by late summer 2000. World Bank representative Sharita Singh ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 9 10:04:46 PDT 2000

35068 New Economy: monopoly = competition -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 9, 2000 For Policy Makers, Microsoft Suggests Need to Recast Models By ALAN MURRAY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The Microsoft case is just the beginning. As government policy makers grapple with a rapidly changing American marketplace, they are increasingly struck by this fact: In the New Economy, monopoly is becoming the rule, not the exception. Whether today's hot companies deal in Web services, business-to-business exchanges or MP3 songs, ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 9 09:25:05 PDT 2000

35069 Fwd: Re: Rent Contol: Open-and-Shut Case? -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than the list] From: "Stroshane, Timothy" <TStroshane at ci.berkeley.ca.us> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:33:41 -0700 >Brad De Long wrote: > >>Powerful land use restrictions limiting higher density development? > >Won't work in Manhattan. > >Doug Brad De Long brings up an excellent point about land use controls in shaping housing markets. There are numerous studies of how zoning and land use planning help to shape housing markets, not only f ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 9 08:44:09 PDT 2000

35070 Rent Contol: Open-and-Shut Case? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >This is a fair cop -- rent control makes a privileged class out of people >out of people who got here first, a kind of housing seniority system. >But that's got nothing to do with Krugman's argument that it causes the >housing shortage and high rents. New construction in NYC is exempt from rent regulation unless the developer gets tax breaks. And apartments renting for >$2,000 are exempt from regulation. So that part of PK's analysis doesn't work here. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 8 12:13:30 PDT 2000