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37201 measuring productivity -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >OECD Economic Outlook reports that, depending on which measurments you use, >labor productivity growth in the U.S. could be as low as 1.0% or as high as >1.9%. They say you can measure output for these calculations by both an >income and and expenditure measure. How do they account for the differences >in the two measurments? Likewise, there's an establishment and household >account of employment, and they are different. Do they have a way to accoun ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 09:49:00 PDT 1999

37202 heterogeneity -- rank: 1000

"Participation in Heterogeneous Communities" BY: ELIANA LA FERRARA Bocconi University (IGIER) ALBERTO ALESINA Harvard University National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=167328 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.igier.uni-bocconi.it/en/papers/abs151.htm SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection location. Wh ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 08:41:40 PDT 1999

37203 Fwd: Statement by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney on Workers' Rights and the WTO -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For information: Naomi Walker 202/637-5093 Statement by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney on Workers' Rights and the WTO October 28, 1999 The current system of global trade and investment rules has failed miserably on many counts. It has weakened the bargaining power of workers all over the world, has undermined legitimate national regulations designed to protect the environment and public health, and has exacerbated financial instability and growing inequality worldwid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 30 22:05:13 PDT 1999

37204 Fwd: AFL-CIO on the WTO -- rank: 1000

[yet another installment in the "what is the AFL-CIO up to?" melodrama - Mike Dolan is the chief Naderite organizer in Seattle - Dolan was apparently a major source for the Seattle Weekly story that said labor was retreating from a major presence at the WTO summit] From: Mike Dolan <mdolan at citizen.org> To: Multiple recipients of list TW-LIST <tw-list at essential.org> Subject: AFL-CIO on the WTO Our brothers and sisters in organized labor are engaged in a high-stakes PR ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 30 22:03:57 PDT 1999

37205 Well-Regulated Militias, and More -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >How do rights that facilitate popular >struggle demobilize it? Because we are lulled into false >consciousness? Because there's such reverence for the text - and the wisdom of The Framers that inheres mystically in it - people are absolved from any sort of self-organized political action. That's reinforced by the fragmented, rivalrous structure of government in the U.S., which has been quite consciously designed to depoliticize politics. For a pure example of delusi ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 30 14:22:46 PDT 1999

37206 foucault? relativist? ROTFL! -- rank: 1000

Maureen Therese Anderson wrote: >His critiques of F. are dispersed (as are his concurrences). But he did >have a little pamphlet out several years ago, put out by some informal >press/collective in the UK and which I'm pretty sure is still in print, >called _Waiting for Foucault_. In effect a collection of one-liners and >such (oy, some of which don't work as well on paper) reflecting his >concerns about the academy in the early '90s. So if you're nostalgic for >Sahlins- ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 30 12:48:04 PDT 1999

37207 Well-Regulated Militias, and More -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >that's my particular context at the moment. as for the discussion on the >US constitution, i wonder why the US left has never argued for the >abolition of the bill of rights. Quite the contrary - except for a few oddballs like my friend Dan Lazare, the Bill of Rights is a sacred text to most American leftists. Dan argues, among other things, that the BoR and the rest of the U.S. constitutional structure has effectively demobilized popular struggle: between the guarantee o ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 30 09:08:43 PDT 1999

37208 WTO: US-EU rift, opponents "gaining upper hand"? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 30, 1999 US-EU rifts may threaten launch of trade round By Guy de Jonquières in Berlin Growing trade conflicts between the US and the European Union may be the biggest threat to the successful launch next month of a world trade round, William Daley, US commerce secretary, said yesterday. He also issued the gloomiest US assessment, since Washington resumed talks with China last month on its membership of the World Trade Organisation, of their chances of agreement before ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 30 08:28:21 PDT 1999

37209 WB on E Timor -- rank: 1000

World Bank says East Timor can expect up to 500 million dollars DILI, East Timor, Oct 29 (AFP) - The leader of the World Bank mission to East Timor on Friday said donors could provide up to 500 million dollars to help rebuild the territory, but he warned against a flood of grant aid. "East Timor should not start with any debt," said Klaus Rohland, World Bank country director for Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, adding that the nation could rely on non-refundable grant aid for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 29 23:21:35 PDT 1999

37210 collective guilt -- rank: 1000

Kosovo Serbs and Gypsies feel trapped in Orahovac, cry for evacuation ORAHOVAC, Yugoslavia, Oct 30 (AFP) - Serbs and Gypsies say they are prisoners in this town in southwestern Kosovo. "Get us out now, please. Living in Orahovac is worse than being in a concentration camp," Mirjana Jokic, a Serb, pleaded with a group of visiting reporters. Her words were echoed by dozens of other Serbs who remained here after the withdrawal of Belgrade's troops from the Yugoslav province in mid-June af ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 29 23:18:55 PDT 1999

37211 Fwd: NYC event: Reclaim The Streets street-dance-protest-party, Union Square Friday Nov. 26 -- rank: 1000

[Anger's great; I'm not so sure about the drums.] RTS-NYC tape at: (212) 539.6746 http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca/contact.html http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca/ please come to a "street dance protest party Union Square 11/26 2pm sharp: show your opposition to wto and globalization; bring props drums radios and your anger." ** ** *** ** *** ** *** ** *** ** *** ** *** ** ** * *** ** *** * * * ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 29 23:13:48 PDT 1999

37212 crashday -- rank: 1000

Happy 70th anniversary of the 1929 crash. Jordan promises that it's clear sailing through January, though. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 29 11:54:36 PDT 1999

37213 No First Amendment Rights for Lefts -- rank: 1000

[bounced for a taboo word] Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:44:25 -0400 From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> Forward ! (((((((((( The March of the Americas was stopped by police this morning, [Thursday, October 28, 1999] at approximately 8:00 am in Irvington, New Jersey. Cheri Honkala, National Spokesperson for the March of the Americas and the Director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union is now being held in an Irvington jail. Please help us. Call the Irvington ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 29 08:51:25 PDT 1999

37214 insults & barbs pomo style -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >are you entirely sure you haven't gone native on us? I'll forego an analysis of that turn of phrase. >there's a nasty rumor going round that you're soft >on judith butler. That's a matter of record, not a mere rumor. > and your seduction by zizek is a >matter of record. Oh yes, completely seduced. But Zizek is quite Marxian in his sympathies, and takes political economy very seriously. (I could tell a little anecdote to illustrate this point, but it'd appear se ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 29 08:44:16 PDT 1999

37215 more on corruption -- rank: 1000

[More from the World Bank's clipping service on corruption.] WORLD BANK DEBARS FIVE FIRMS FOR CORRUPTION. The World Bank said yesterday it had declared five Japanese and US consulting firms ineligible for Bank contracts for having engaged in corrupt practices, reports AFP. Two Japanese firms, All Nippon Engineering Corporation and Penmacs, are barred indefinitely from doing business with the Bank, while three other companies, Niko Research Center Limited of Japan and Niko Research Center and Int ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 29 08:39:15 PDT 1999