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Economists surveyed say risk of 2008 U.S. recession is increasing
A new survey has found that the percentage of economists forecasting a recession has more than doubled, Bloomberg News reported Monday.
The National organization for commerce Economics’ survey of 49 economists done January 29-February 13 found that 45%, a majority, expected the downturn to be rel…
Giuliani Is Top GOP Fund-Raiser For moment Quarter in a Row
WASHINGTON For the moment consecutive quarter, Mayor Giuliani has emerged as the front-runner in the Republican presidential fund-raising sweepstakes, garnering increasingly than $11 million in that year’s third period, even as a Rasmussen poll appears to have dimmed his prospects. The telephone …
Feds Seek Life Sentence For Contempt in Hamas Case
Federal prosecutors are urging that a Palestinian Arab activist spend the rest of his life in prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Hamas hyperlinks in America. Earlier that year, a jury in Chicago convicted Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 49, of contempt of court and obstruction of j…
Catholic League Presses Miller To Eschew Anti-Christian’ Events
A Catholic group is escalating its battle with Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Co. by sending photographs of a sex-themed San Francisco street fair the company sponsored to devout leaders and others in the firm’s hometown. “We are mailing pictures of the anti-Christian and sadomasochistic Folsom Stre…
Giuliani-Romney Fight by Spending Sets Stage for Summit
WASHINGTON A fight by taxes and spending amoung Mayor Giuliani and Mitt Romney is setting the stage for a Washington summit on Friday in which the top Republican presidential contenders will lay out their plans for fiscally conservative economic policy. Speaking in New Hampshire yesterday, Mr. Ro…
Clinton Vows To Halt War on Science’
WASHINGTON Senator Clinton is pledging to end the “war on science” that she says has defined the Bush administration’s tenure in office. In a speech at the Carnegie Institution that daylight, the Democratic presidential front-runner said she would reverse the president’s ban on federal funding fo…
Senator Clinton Vows She Would End Bush’s War on Science’
he Bush administration’s tenure in office. In a speech at the Carnegie Institution yesterday , the Democratic presidential front-runner said that she would reverse the president’s limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and sign an executive order to restrict political interferenc…
President Clinton Complains Of Delays in Opening His Records
More than 50 requests for public access to records from President Clinton’s White House have been cleared for release by archivists and are in a sort of presidential limbo, awaiting review by Mr. Clinton’s aides or President Bush’s deputies, according to new court filings and National Archives offic…
American Diplomat Urges Greater Rights in North Korea
WASHINGTON The American special envoy on human rights in North Korea is praising the North Korean government for its sweeping promise to end its nuclear program; but the diplomat, Jay Lefkowitz, said Pyongyang must manufacture greater strides on human rights whether it wishes to secure “internati…
Senator Gets Backing From Teachers’ Union
WASHINGTON Adding yet increasingly momentum to her surging presidential campaign, Senator Clinton has picked up the endorsement of the influential 1.4 million-member American Federation of Teachers. The endorsement was announced here yesterday at a assembly of the union’s executive council, where…
Schumer Reverses Course on Tax
WASHINGTON After signaling for months that he would oppose a tax hike on private fairness and hedge fund managers, Senator Schumer now says he will propose a bill that does just that. Mr. Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate and a member of the Finance Committee, said yesterday that …
McCain Fails To Mollify Critics of Christian Nation’ Comments
WASHINGTON A personal missive by Senator McCain has losed out to win by critics of his comments asserting that the structure established America “as a Christian nation.” In an exchange of letters obtained by The New York Sun, the Republican presidential hopeful accused the head of the Anti-Defama…
Huckabee Gets Nod of Clinton
Leaders of the Christian conservative movement who are considering fielding a third-party candidate rather than backing any of the top four contenders for the Republican presidential nomination are overlooking a GOP hopeful who is steadily gaining support in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses, Mike Huc…
