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38086 more guns (was: Reply to Margaret) -- rank: 1000
Switzerland is armed to the teeth. Why don't the Swiss kill each other in great numbers? Doug
Document Size: 4571
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 7 10:27:26 PDT 1999
38087 Roll Call Vote Site -- rank: 1000
Speaking of which, the roll call on the vicious bankruptcy "reform" is at <http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=1999&rollnumber=115>. Not a single Republican "nay," despite Hyde's rhetoric. Doug
Document Size: 4638
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 7 10:12:22 PDT 1999
38088 Roll Call Vote Site -- rank: 1000
Tom Lehman wrote: >Does anyone know of a quick to load, easy to navigate congressional roll >call vote website? For the House, <http://clerkweb.house.gov/>. Follow the <vote> link. 1999 votes are at <http://clerkweb.house.gov/evs/1999/index.asp>. Doug
Document Size: 4732
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 7 10:10:32 PDT 1999
38089 GOP the lesser evil? (was Bankruptcy) -- rank: 1000
Beth Goldstein wrote: >I suspect that the Republican objection to the war has a lot more to do >with opposing the Democrats than it has to do with anything as >unprofitable as principle. I saw a quote from a British Tory MP in the Financial Times a few weeks ago that described the Serbs as Christians defending Europe against the Muslim hordes of the east. I wonder how much of this there is behind right-wing objections to the war. Doug
Document Size: 4945
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 7 10:07:05 PDT 1999
38090 Russians on peace deal -- rank: 1000
Russia: Kosovo Crisis Not Over Yet May 7, 1999 By BARRY RENFREW MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia warned today that the Kosovo crisis is not over despite progress on finding a diplomatic solution and said it still believes NATO must first end its airstrikes to ensure peace. A draft peace plan worked out by Western powers and Russia ``is not a breakthrough, but a step in the right direction. There will be a breakthrough when the war is stopped,'' said Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. Moscow's special envoy on K ...
Document Size: 7390
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 7 08:11:58 PDT 1999
38091 Greenspan sez.... -- rank: 1000
Rob Schaap wrote: >Greenspan's blather about tight 'labour markets' and inflation (and >interest rate hikes in June) has scared the guts out of the Oz markets >today. I'd take a couple of mill. out in cash if I were you lot - first >thing. > >Methinks the bloke is experimenting with the idea of gently pricking a >bubble ... Yeah, he tried that about 6,000 Dow points ago, with his tortured "irrational exuberance" remark.* Didn't work very well, did it? Doug ---- *A ...
Document Size: 5990
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 7 07:56:37 PDT 1999
38092 latest LBO -- rank: 1000
rayrena wrote: >The piece made me curious about France. Of the three economic models >presented--social democratic, corporatist, liberal--I would have assumed, >based admittedly on scant knowledge, that France is of the second. Is this >true, or am I mistaken? (I am aware that these are not hard-and-fast >categories.) The thing that struck me was that France has a poverty rate >that tops even liberal countries like the UK and Australia (though, of >course, it doesn't approac ...
Document Size: 5883
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 7 07:33:36 PDT 1999
38093 "the best of times" -- rank: 1000
US AND CANADA: Labour market prompts few fears Financial Times; 07-May-1999 05:23:22 am ; 264 words Some of America's biggest business chiefs said yesterday that their companies' productivity was not threatened by the tight US labour market, despite the concerns voiced by Alan Greenspan, chairman of the US Federal Reserve. "If we all stay worried, there is a good chance there won't be a problem. Alan may be talking about something very long-term," said Sandy Weill, co-chairman and chie ...
Document Size: 6143
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 7 07:16:22 PDT 1999
38094 mom's salary -- rank: 1000
In the run-up to Mother's Day in the U.S.A., the May 6 Wall Street Journal reports: "Edelman Financial Services Inc., Fairfax, Va., figures that mothers typically perform tasks from 17 occupations, including chef, social worker, psychologist, and property manager. It claims the combined median annual salary for mother's multitasking should be more than $500,000." Doug
Document Size: 4714
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 6 20:55:28 PDT 1999
38095 Third World Must Make Do With Less -- rank: 1000
Copyright 1999, Inter Press Service ECONOMY: Third World Must Make Do With Less By Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, Apr 26 (IPS) - Relief and lowered expectations are written all over this week's Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Relief that the worst appears to be over for world financial markets but lowered expectations because aid and investment remain at depressed levels, pushing back the prospect of recovery. This is the message from the Bretton Woods institutio ...
Document Size: 10008
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 6 17:32:10 PDT 1999
38096 Russian disintegration index -- rank: 1000
EastWest Institute RUSSIAN REGIONAL REPORT Vol. 4, No. 17, 6 May 1999 Russian Cohesion Index: -17 (down 9 this week) Disintegration.............T.....L....0...................Democratic Federalism (T = this week; L = last week; 0 = 17 March) *****See the RRR website (<http://www.iews.org/rrrabout.nsf>) for a graphic display of the Russian Cohesion Index since 17 March.***** ----- New violence in the traditionally quiet region of Karachaevo-Cherkesiya marks the further destablization of the ...
Document Size: 6346
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 6 16:03:52 PDT 1999
38097 Greenspan sez.... -- rank: 1000
<http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/boarddocs/speeches/1999/19990506.htm> In a speech in Chicago this morning, after a lot of the usual stuff about info tech and its contribution to the rise in productivity, Greenspan said: <quote> Although productivity has accelerated in recent years, the impressive strength of domestic demand, in part driven by sharply rising equity prices, has meant that the substitution of capital for labor has been inadequate to prevent us from steadily depleting the poo ...
Document Size: 9584
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 6 13:00:43 PDT 1999
38098 Detroit upgraded -- rank: 1000
from Grant's Municipal Finance Observer's email update: >-> DETROIT? >"That cities are coming back is not news. Week chases week, and everywhere we >read about this or that downtown' flourishing, and sometimes in the most >unlikely of spots. St. Louis? In the 1980s, St. Louis was dubbed The Carthage >of America.' At the end of the 1990s, St. Louis is written up in Saveur, a >glossy magazine that carries under it title the slogan Savor a world of >authentic cuisine. ...
Document Size: 5363
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 6 11:22:13 PDT 1999
38099 Proclamation on National Day of Prayer 1999 -- rank: 1000
[following hard upon Law/Loyalty Day...] Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 09:44 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> Subject: 1999-05-05 Proclamation on National Day of Prayer 1999 To: Public-Distribution@[198.137.240.100] Precedence: Bulk Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/5/6/2.text.1 URL: http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/5/6/2.t ext.1 Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: White House Electronic Publications Keywords: Civil-Rig ...
Document Size: 9064
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 6 07:34:56 PDT 1999
38100 NATO general: Milosevic may succeed -- rank: 1000
W. Kiernan wrote: >On top of that NATO is sprinkling Kosovo with cluster >bombs, which will be blowing the legs off Serb and Albanian civilians >alike for the next decade. Story in today's NYT conceded a lot along these lines. Doug ---- New York Times - May 6, 1999 Doctor Sees Warfare Etched in Flesh By STEVEN ERLANGER RISTINA, Yugoslavia -- Dr. Rade Grbic, an orthopedic surgeon who directs Kosovo's largest hospital, has become a reluctant expert in bomb blasts. He admits with some mord ...
Document Size: 12041
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 6 08:36:33 PDT 1999
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