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...After hearing that her boss is looking to replace her, Lu Qingmin quits her job in a factory's human resources department: "In August 2004, two months after she arrived, Min collected her pay and left without telling anyone... she spent the night in a hotel near her factory; while she slept, someone broke the lock on her door. The thief took nine hundred yuan [about $130] and Min's mobile phone, the only place where she had stored the numbers of everyone she knew in the city: the ex-colleague who was her only link...
...earnings reports, September retail sales and housing starts - will likely add up to a bleak picture, both in terms of consumer confidence levels and the overall health of the U.S. economy. "The data will show an economy that has lost a lot of steam in September in relation to August," says Joe LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank. "It remains to be seen how bad October will be, but we could really see a bad quarter in terms of Gross Domestic Product performance where we are down at least a couple of percentage points...
...Retail Sales: The most significant barometer of economic health came out today in the Census Bureau's retail sales report. As expected, the numbers weren't pretty. Retail sales in September dropped to $375.5 billion, a 1.2% decrease from August. With access to credit severely restricted by the banking crisis, this third consecutive month of shrinking sales is significant because it happened during the back-to-school shopping period, usually retailers' biggest month outside the December holiday season. And a three-month decline in sales like this - September's drop was the worst - hasn't occurred since...
...Kenyon has now upped its number of voting machines to 10, but other precincts admit they're still basing their Election Day plans on where the voting rolls stood in August, long before student-voter drives even started, let alone achieved record successes. To accommodate the swollen voting rolls, many understaffed offices will have to hire temps or new employees who are less familiar with standard procedures and may be more prone to making mistakes...
...terrorist bombing was a response to a major military campaign started in August to eliminate Shining Path positions from a jungle-mountain stretch known as the Apurimac-Ene River Valley or VRAE. Besides housing the Shining Path, the VRAE is also the second most important area in Peru for coca, from which cocaine is produced. The VRAE has close to 40,000 coca plants and can produce around 100 tons of cocaine annually...