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35461 IMF on Russia -- rank: 1000

[From Johnson's Russia List] IMF archives paint grim Russia loan picture January 20, 2000 By Janet Guttsman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia's ties with the International Monetary Fund are a litany of broken promises, ambitious plans and missed opportunities, according to once-confidential documents available under new IMF rules. The papers, covering the first three years of Russia's ties to the IMF from 1992 to 1994, show that Moscow repeatedly reneged on commitments to the international lending a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 13:18:09 PST 2000

35462 NYT admits to being in conspiracy with gov't -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:47:26 -0500 From: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at anise.ee.cornell.edu> I sent e-mail to the NYT regarding their continues supression of the Cinese embassy bombing story. I got this reply from the foreign editor. -- Enrique Diaz-Alvarez Office # (607) 255 5034 Electrical Engineering Home # (607) 272 4808 112 Phillips Hall Fax # (607) 255 4565 Cornell University mailto:enrique at ee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 13:00:29 PST 2000

35463 Fwd: Nader attack: your posting -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: > > >Doug Henwood of course is a hard line Marxist ideologue with whom I have > > >had minimally polite but firm debates over environmental and economic > > >issues. > >Question: what's a "firm" debate? Doug, you any idea? Did you realize the >debates were firm while they were happening? I experienced it as nasty. Perhaps that's her idea of "firm." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 09:10:51 PST 2000

35464 O'Connor on Seattle -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Cut it two parts and post it. No, it's too long. I don't like sending 37k unsolicited to 300+ people. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 06:55:32 PST 2000

35465 help -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Perhaps in future people seeking help can be explicit about what they want. Oh, but Chris, how do we know what we want? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 06:54:26 PST 2000

35466 union ranks grow -- rank: 1000

[The BLS release is at <http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/union2.toc.htm>.] New York Times - January 20, 2000 Growth in Unions' Membership in 1999 Was the Best in Two Decades By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Union membership nationwide rose faster last year than at any time in the past two decades, a development that labor experts called the strongest sign yet that John J. Sweeney, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s president, was succeeding in his efforts to reverse the labor movement's lengthy slide. The Bureau of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 06:44:07 PST 2000

35467 Email Address Change -- rank: 1000

Russell Pavlat wrote: >How do I change my email address? For the full set of majordomo commands, send the message "help" (no quotation marks, of course), to <majordomo at panix.com>. Since this is a full-service list, you can email me privately & I'll do the dirty work. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 06:30:28 PST 2000

35468 help -- rank: 1000

Russell Pavlat wrote: >help What kind of help do you need? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 22:29:33 PST 2000

35469 WSJ on wealth -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Savings are low (if you ignore retirement savings, which I don't, >but others do). That's not true. Pension contributions count as savings. Are you talking about capital gains? > So what? Domestic savings are insufficient to finance domestic investment and consumption, meaning large and sustained foreign borrowing. That's not, to use the word we liked in the Party of the Right, sound. > > How likely is it that people are going to start betting > > en ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 21:50:53 PST 2000

35470 Nader attack: your posting -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Me too, with one qualification: Nader's political action (on auto safety) >is by this point responsible for tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of >people continuing to reside on the planet who would otherwise be dead or >maimed. That's an achievement which very few can match, and gives him a >basic level of credibility among the big public that's hard to compete >with. Someone said criticizing that Nader was like criticizing Mother >Teresa. That's why. T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 21:42:42 PST 2000

35471 Putin in deal with Commies -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Putin May Delay Reforms to Win Communist Support Moscow, Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Russian Acting President Vladimir Putin may put economic reform measures on hold until the March presidential election as he seeks to win support from all political parties, including the Communists, analysts said. The Unity party, endorsed by Putin, yesterday allied itself with the Communist Party in the lower house of parliament, the Duma, to reelect Communist Gennady Seleznyov as speak ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 21:34:25 PST 2000

35472 Barshefsky: no trade talks now -- rank: 1000

Reuters - January 19, 8:59 pm Eastern Time Barshefsky says time not yet right for trade round WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - President Bill Clinton's top trade negotiator said on Wednesday prospects for a new round of global trade negotiations had not improved since the collapse of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in December, casting doubt on new talks any time soon. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky said it was impossible to predict when a new trade round could be launched beca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 21:25:16 PST 2000

35473 Nader attack: your posting -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >And Nader is the white American who has done more for working people and >consumers in this country than anyone else in the last 35 years. Consumers, yes, but isn't there a problem with interpellating people as consumers? Kind of marketizing and reductive. Working people, how? Nader contributed no small amount to the deregulation movement, which savaged the wages & working conditions of people in air and ground transportation. What's he done to counter that? D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 21:22:52 PST 2000

35474 MSAs -- rank: 1000

"Medical Savings Accounts: Windfalls for the Healthy, Wealthy & Wise" BY: REGINA T. JEFFERSON Catholic University of America Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=171973 Contact: REGINA T. JEFFERSON Email: Mailto:Jefferson at Law.CUA.edu Postal: Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law Washington, DC 20064 USA Phone: (202)319-5025 Fax: (202)319-4459 ABSTRACT: This article analyzes the Medical ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 21:14:27 PST 2000

35475 American democracy in action -- rank: 1000

------------------------------->$$$$$<-------------------------------- OUCH! A Regular Bulletin on How Money in Politics Hurts You #38 Public Campaign January 19, 2000 ------------------------------->$$$$$<-------------------------------- BUSH FOLLOWS THE MONEY If you've ever doubted that campaign contributions buy influence with politicians, check out this revealing fact, uncovered by Michael Isikoff in Newsweek: George W. Bush's massive fundraising o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 17:18:31 PST 2000