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...fact is that Presidents have very little effect on the state of the economy. Sure, they can affect trade policy, regulation, the environment and, of course, foreign policy. But the economy? With globalization, trillions of dollars flow daily in and out of financial markets. One dollar in 10 is now involved in foreign trade. All advanced economies are subject to huge outside forces beyond a President's control. Moreover, U.S. Presidents have even less economic control than most other democratic leaders. The President does not control the money supply; the Federal Reserve does. Presidents cannot dictate their own budgets...
Brokaw said so far people seem to be taking their time in digesting new developments that may affect the election, although he suggested that some issues may soon come to a head...
...must have skipped the whole page about employment security. For even as HUCTW negotiates a new contract with Harvard, the University has announced that by June it will lay off at least 213 clerical and technical workers, including 89 card-carrying members of HUCTW. Most of these layoffs will affect women...
...hormones in conventional birth control pills. If taken within 72 hours of intercourse, emergency contraception can reduce a woman’s risk of becoming pregnant by between 75 and 99 percent. Like regular birth control pills, it inhibits ovulation, fertilization and implantation—but will not affect an existing pregnancy. The Alan Guttmacher Institute estimates that 51,000 abortions were prevented in 2000 due to better access to and better knowledge of emergency contraception...
...access to the morning-after pill all the more important now is that it would render many of these restrictive measures moot and keep these morality demagogues out of a woman’s personal family planning decisions. Yet the FDA seems more concerned with how this policy will affect teen sex rates rather than how it could reduce teen pregnancy rates. A recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine condemns the FDA for allowing “political considerations” to delay their decision on this issue...