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...believe that unemployment is moving toward 9% to subtract jobs from the economy faster than government programs create them. Most members of Congress and the Administration believe that the new legislation will take 18 to 24 months to have its full effect. An unimaginable downturn could cause the loss of six or seven million jobs...
...from destruction. The Detroit Three sponsor teams and races and offer engineering support for the drivers and their crews. General Motors and Ford are among NASCAR's biggest television advertisers. Even Toyota, which controversially entered stock-car racing two years ago, expects a nearly $3.9 billion full-year loss, its first since 1950. An auto failure would be catastrophic for the sport. "The uncertainty of it all is what keeps you up at night," says NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France. "You know, trying to figure out where the bottom...
...shutting down," said Representative Gene Taylor, whose Mississippi district builds ships and who chairs the House Seapower Subcommittee and co-chairs the Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus. "I would ask you to encourage your acquisition folks to take advantage of these low prices." Shutting down the F-22 line means "the loss of 95,000 jobs," warned Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, as did many others in his state. "If we truly want to stimulate the economy, there's no better place to do it than in defense spending." Last month nearly half the Congress sent letters to Barack Obama urging...
...Sunday morning, as weeping survivors emerged from the ruins to tell of corpses beside roads and of missing relatives and neighbors, the full extent of the disaster began to dawn. More than 200 people died in just a few days, the worst peacetime loss of life in mainland Australia's history...
...Harvard and Lexington High School has been incredibly significant,” Glew said. “Having these younger, highly educated, sensitive people, trained through Harvard Divinity—the facilitation of learning was so significant. To see that go is a shame. It’s a loss to students...