 Unemployment in the U.S. for August rose from 9,4 to 9,7 per cent and a maximum of updated since 1983. This is stated in the official press release, U.S. Department of Labor.
It is estimated that officials in August, 216 thousand people lost their jobs.
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Date: 04.09.2009
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There is no mistaking the rage in America, across the board, at the release of the Lockerbie bomber Megrahi, and at the apparent duplicity of Gordon Brown and his kinsmen north of the border. Americans dislike more than anything else duplicity among friends (though it is not always absent in Washington). We should remember Suez, 1956. For the last time when the mood within the "special relationship" was as frigid, one has to look back to 1973. It was the year of
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Date: 04.09.2009
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 Ted Kennedy went to his grave a haunted man for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in the 1969 Chappaquiddick car crash that many believe shattered Kennedy's presidential dreams."That night on Chappaquiddick Island ended in a horrible tragedy that haunts me every day of my life," Kennedy wrote in "True Compass," his much anticipated memoir, published by Twelve.It was an accident, Kennedy said in his 511-page tome due out Sept. 14, a copy of which was obtained by The News. But he confessed he was "responsible."It's one of several unvarnished passages that sheds new light on the storied life of the late senator, who died last week of brain cancer. Other revelations include:Kennedy insists he was never an alcoholic. But he enjoyed his fair share of stiff drinks, women and fine wine, and "at times I've enjoyed these pleasures too much."As a 9-year-old, Kennedy hid under
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Date: 04.09.2009
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 Widows and survivors of 9/11 are demanding President Obamastand with sick responders - and champion a stalled congressional measure to help them.Named after NYPD Detective James Zadroga, who died from inhaling toxins, the bill would pay for the treatment of Ground Zero responders and workers sickened by their post-Sept. 11 service.But it's been stuck in Congress over fears about its cost.After eight years, the people who responded to the worst terror attacks on American soil are getting tired of waiting while more of them die, and have written Obama demanding he act."Their deaths have left a void in our families and have left us wondering why our country, and you, Mr. President, have not done more to help the heroes of 9/11," the letter says.The President, it notes, backed the legislation as a senator running for theWhite House."Since that time, we have heard nothing from you
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Date: 04.09.2009
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Date: 04.09.2009
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 Evening September 3 in Los Angeles Cemetery Forest Lawn Glendale funeral took place of Michael Jackson, who died more than two months ago. According to the Associated Press, at a private ceremony attended by family of the deceased and about 200 closest friends, including Elizabeth Taylor, Macaulay Culkin and Ste
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Date: 04.09.2009
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 WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepares to decide whether to send additional troops to Afghanistan, the political climate appears increasingly challenging for him, leaving him in the awkward position of relying on the Republican Party, and not his own, for support. Talking to the Taliban
The simple political narrative of the Afghanistan war — that this was the good war, in which the United States would hunt down the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks — has faded over time, with popular support ebbing, American casualties rising and confidence in the Afghan government declining. In addition, Afghanistan’s disputed election, and the attendant fraud charges that have been lodged against President Hamid Karzai, are contributing further to the erosion of public support.
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Date: 03.09.2009
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 A year ago, Barack Obama, through an impressive new-school grassroots campaign, mobilizing young people via the Internet and text messaging, was able to stir up a democratic base of people who were eager for change. All utopian slogans and rhetoric aside, he ignited citizens who really did want to see reform on a number of core issues. Seven months into his presidency, what has happened to that fervor he helped create?
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Date: 03.09.2009
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In a memoir being published this month, Senator Edward M. Kennedy called his behavior after the 1969 car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne “inexcusable” and said the events might have shortened the life of his ailing father, Joseph P. Kennedy.
In that book, “True Compass,” Mr. Kennedy said he was dazed, afraid and panicked in the minutes and hours after he drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island with Ms. Kopechne as his passenger.
The senator, who left the scene and did not report the accident to the police until after her body was found the next day, admitted in the memoir that he had “made terrible decisions” at Chappaquiddick. He also said that he had hardly known Ms. Kopechne, a young woman who had been an aide to his late brother Robert, and that he had had no romanti
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Date: 03.09.2009
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 With housing prices still in the dumps, many Americans are finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of landlord.
Some have been forced to relocate for a job and can't
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Date: 03.09.2009
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Date: 03.09.2009
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 It was a typical day in the jungle, though more overcast than the usual island diet of blue skies and fluffy white clouds—drizzling rain misting up the sticky, humid air, a breeze stirring through breadfruit and banana leaves. I arrived at the family home of Navy Hospital Corpsman Second Class Anthony Carbullido, Jr., whom the Department of Defense (D.O.D.) had recently listed among the dead to be routed back from Afghanistan to Guam through Dover, Delaware—the victim of an improvised explosive device.
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Date: 03.09.2009
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WASHINGTON -- A group called the Herndon Alliance -- a coalition of liberal health-care groups, unions and patient-advocacy groups created in late 2005 -- was only a few months into its work planning a health-insurance overhaul by the time it asked focus groups what they thought of the idea of a government-run plan to compete with private ones. The public-option was an article
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Date: 03.09.2009
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 The biological father of kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard said he wants to kill the sicko who held her captive for 18 years.
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Date: 03.09.2009
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 Productivity in the U.S. in the second quarter of 2009 increased by 6,6 percent in annual terms, which is a record in the third quarter of 2003. This is stated in the officialpress release, U.S. Department of Labor.
Earlier in the Ministry of Labor reported that productivity in th
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Date: 03.09.2009
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 Her captor and rapist from California gave free advice to protect children, wrote San Jose Mercury News. Garrido Phillip (Phillip Craig Garrido), stole the 11-year-old schoolgirl, holding her captive 18 years, produces in its own printing company business cards for Gomes Janice (Janice Gomes) - a psychologist and expert on child safety - and at the same time shared with her qualified opinions.
Gomez has a long experience in dealing with criminals but Garrido any suspicions she had not called.
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Date: 03.09.2009
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