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37396 Fed sez... -- rank: 1000

[Larry Kudlow's comment on CNBC was that this was released to a background track of flapping chicken wings.] <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/BoardDocs/press/General/1999/19991005/default.htm> Release Date: October 5, 1999 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to leave its target for the federal funds rate unchanged. Strengthening productivity growth has been fostering favorable trends in unit costs and prices, and much recent information suggests that these trend ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 5 14:27:51 PDT 1999

37397 AFL-CIO retreats from WTO confrontation -- rank: 1000

Seattle Weekly - September 30-October 6, 1999 WILL LABOR FIGHT? By Geov Parrish Unions are scaling back protests against free trade and the WTO. The early, giddy estimates of 50,000 people on the streets of Seattle for World Trade Organization protests November 29-December 3 may have been premature. The largest single event planned during a week of protests--and the probable focus of most media attention for the anti-WTO cause--is a November 30 rally and march planned by organized labor. But the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 5 13:36:34 PDT 1999

37398 Helms: Floyd relief before debt relief -- rank: 1000

[Jesse has no problem with federal spending when it goes to his constituents. From the World Bank's daily clipping service.] NO DEBT RELIEF UNTIL AFTER HURRICANE FLOYD AID: US SENATOR. The US Senate will not consider President Bill Clinton's foreign debt forgiveness plan until adequate aid is dedicated to victims of last month's Hurricane Floyd, Agence France-Presse reports Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) said yesterday. Helms, who represents one of the states worst hit by the hurricane on September ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 5 07:48:16 PDT 1999

37399 W's health advisor a Humana lobbyist -- rank: 1000

["These things happen all the time" - how reassuring!] Wall Street Journal - October 5, 1999 LOBBYISTS HOLD FUND-RAISER FOR HASTERT AS HOUSE NEARS MANAGED-CARE DEBATE By a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter WASHINGTON -- As the House prepares for what could be a bruising battle over managed-care reform, Speaker Dennis Hastert will be feted Tuesday morning at a $1,000-a-plate breakfast sponsored by several industry lobbyists. The event, limited to 15 participants, has been scheduled for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 5 06:34:44 PDT 1999

37400 cheap fun -- rank: 1000

The things you can do with Photoshop.... <http://www.fuckgiuliani.com/>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 17:58:55 PDT 1999

37401 what you can get busted for in NYC -- rank: 1000

The kinds of images that got Robert Lederman arrested in front of the Brooklyn Museum the other day are at <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/19991003/ts/mdf15263.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 12:48:57 PDT 1999

37402 Of gods and vampires: an introduction to psychoanalysis -- rank: 1000

[more address oddities] From: "christian a. gregory" <chrisgregory11 at email.msn.com> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:16:33 -0500 > > > Lacan, despite himself, is the 'subject presumed to > know.' > > Despite the fact that Lacan explicity denies this?> Yeah. God knows we've got to take Lacan at his word. And if he denies something, it's *not* ironic, and it's can't possibly be self-contradictory or--heaven forbid!--self -serving. After all he's, well, the one supp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 11:47:02 PDT 1999

37403 Ventura ratings dive -- rank: 1000

[for all you Jesse Ventura fans out there] Minneapolis Star-Tribune - October 4, 1999 VENTURA'S COMMENTS HAVE HURT HIS STANDING WITH MINNESOTANS Dane Smith / Star Tribune Minnesotans' regard for Gov. Jesse Ventura in the immediate aftermath of his Playboy magazine interview has dropped sharply, the latest Star Tribune Minnesota Poll shows. Fifty-four percent of Minnesotans approve of Ventura's overall job performance, according to a survey of 624 adults interviewed Friday evening to Sunday eveni ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 11:35:34 PDT 1999

37404 Jobs & Education: A Query -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: > > Does anyone have data on the proportion of jobs in the USA that require > > college education? Any good article on credentialism? > > What's the proportion of college graduates who get jobs that require > > college education? > > Yoshie > >Post-secondary may be more accurate label for most jobs 'requiring' >formal education above high school degree. According to BLS projections <http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.table5.h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 11:30:15 PDT 1999

37405 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

From: owner-press-release at Census.GOV EMBARGOED UNTIL: 12:01 A.M. EDT, OCTOBER 4, 1999 (MONDAY) Public Information Office CB99-189 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD) e-mail: pio at census.gov Jennifer A. Campbell 301-457-3242 Increase of 1 Million Uninsured People, Census Bureau Says An estimated 44.3 million people in the United States, or 16.3 percent of the population, had no health insurance in 1998 -- an increase of about 1 million pe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 11:22:16 PDT 1999

37406 "A seed of violence, perhaps?" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From a review of Marshall Berman’s “Adventures in Marxism” by Douglas A. >Sylva, in yesterday’s NY Times Book Review: “But the most striking >element of this book is what is left unexamined: the dreadful >history of Communism. Berman never truly considers whether, since so >many different people in so many different countries have killed in >Marx's name, there might be some connection between the theory and >the practice, a seed of violence, perhaps, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 11:19:08 PDT 1999

37407 Derrida down under -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >well, there is certainly something very missing in _SoM_; but i wouldn't >say it's frankness. What is it then? I'm tempted to say politics, but maybe I'm being too literal. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 10:41:10 PDT 1999

37408 East Timor vs Somalia vs SA -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >At 07:09 03/10/99 +0200, Patrick Bond wrote: > >On 2 Oct 99, at 20:37, Chris Burford wrote: > >> How could any post apartheid regime have bucked the > >> power of the international bond traders? Do your think that the >progressive > >> economic policy promoted by some left wing economists as an option before > >> the election, could ever have worked against the power of international > >> finance capital? I think not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 09:05:15 PDT 1999

37409 Schoder's capitulation to the bond markets -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman quoted and commented: >"The crunch came for Lafontaine during the Bonn government cabinet meeting >of March 10. Schröder is said to have told ministers at the outset of the >meeting: "It must be the first time this has ever happened in the world: the >entire business community is refusing to invest and create jobs. It will >come to a point where I will no longer assume responsibility for such >policies. Some people here assume that one can govern a count ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 08:37:41 PDT 1999

37410 Fwd: Sex, Bombs and Mediatypes (was:Re: Littleton: it's Adorno's fault) -- rank: 1000

From: "elena" <spectra at elits.rousse.bg> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:03:41 +0300 Hilary might not be happy to learn what a spin "their way of life that NATO is defending" is enjoying in now-here Serbia. The Balkans seem to have been more openly homophobic than their more civilised W/Euro neighbours, and "deviants under attack" sounds very much like the off-beat of old rusty tin drums: on MH Roland Brunner's list info at medienhilfe.ch /// http://www.medienhi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 08:24:02 PDT 1999