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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...weakness in demand and a sign the economy is slowing." Englund says the drop below August's sales levels are mostly due to extremely weak auto sales, as people have had difficulty getting loans due to tighter credit and higher rates. "Our view is that the current downturn will equal or surpass the downturn of late 1990, early 1991," says LaVogna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Reasons the Markets Are Still Troubled | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...statement on the state senate floor, Obama explained his rationale for opposing the bill. "Whenever we define a previable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal-protection clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we're really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a child, a 9-month-old child that was delivered to term," he said. "That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it would essentially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Valid is Palin's Abortion Attack on Obama? | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...historical frisson of the Massachusetts ruling from 2004 and the extended eloquence of the California ruling from earlier this year. The Connecticut justices didn't take the opportunity - as the California justices did - to dismantle the various arguments that social conservatives have used over the years to oppose marriage equality. There is only one brief moment of righteous clarity in the Connecticut ruling - the part where the court explains why civil unions do not suffice: "Although marriage and civil unions do embody the same legal rights under our law, they are by no means 'equal.' As we have explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: For Gay Marriage, Time to Go Beyond the Courts | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...their insurance policy by operation of law that the insurance company will pay for mental health treatment in exactly the same way they cover physical ailments - the same amount of days in the hospital, the same amount of co-pay, and all the other technical words will be equal. And that's not what it used to be, and not what it is today. Insurance companies were already moving in that direction, but now we've made it so they can't slide backwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senator Pete Domenici on Mental Health | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...almost beginning to feel routine. Like the Massachusetts and California high courts before it, the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex couples should be allowed to wed. "Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the otherwise qualified same-sex partner of their choice," Justice Richard Palmer wrote in his 4-3 opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: For Gay Marriage, Time to Go Beyond the Courts | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

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