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...fourth quarter of 2008, the American economy shrank by 6.2 percent, and last month the official unemployment rate reached 8.1 percent, a figure not seen in a quarter-century. Nor has the Obama administration been idle. On Feb. 17, the president signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which calls for the government to spend $789 billion over the next two years in an attempt to revive the flagging economy...
...past. Nearly eight decades ago, as the Great Depression was beginning to plunge the United States into ever-greater economic peril, Congress—at the behest of the agricultural and industrial lobbies—passed the highest set of import duties in American history, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The results were disastrous; according to the State Department, “while the tariff might not have caused the Depression, it certainly did not make it any better. It provoked a storm of foreign retaliatory measures… Such policies contributed to a drastic decline in international trade...
...same lab as part of a multi-physician program at the now-defunct Century City Doctors Hospital. He speculates that Kamrava may have chosen the path of multiple-implantations because he was under pressure to up his success rate. To keep to the Fertility Clinic Success Rate and Certification Act of 1992, that rate must be reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention annually. Steinberg says that after the law went into effect, fertility centers implanted more embryos per cycle and there was an explosion in the number of multiple births. ASRM responded by urging its members...
...act, says Steinberg, "was sort of a regulatory control that was supposed to empower patients by providing more information to them, which is great in it's intent. I think it proved more detrimental than positive because it made [some practices] more aggressive...
...White House and only the fifth British Prime Minister ever to address Congress, he might have reconsidered the fourth paragraph of that speech. Like a nervous entertainer at a particularly rowdy children's party, Brown pulled his rabbit out of the hat almost at the start of his act. Her Majesty - Britain's Queen - had bestowed an honorary knighthood on "Sir Edward Kennedy," he announced...