Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Battipaglia adds that "wage increases will be more than offset by productivity gains, despite the remarkably low U.S. unemployment rate--4.2% in May, matching a 29-year low--that might be expected to force pay and prices up faster. Employers will have less trouble than the jobless rate might suggest in finding the workers they need, he says, for three reasons. First, "you have had a tremendous amount of downsizing that freed up a lot of individuals who are now coming back" into the work force. Also, "second wage earners"--primarily wives and husbands--who may not have been counted...
...cause problems back in the real world. For six percent of Internet users, according to a study of 18000 users last year, the Web is a plug-in hallucinogen, a refuge from reality and an addiction. The psychological symptoms of this addiction, according to the study, include loneliness, low self-esteem and depression...
...involvement in any specific killing, he?s certainly never condemned that kind of behavior." Besides the alleged internecine killings, the KLA is also known to have targeted Serb and Gypsy civilians, moderate ethnic Albanian politicians and those it considered traitors. "As a hard-liner, Thaci has a very low threshold for calling people ?traitors? -? it could be an ethnic Albanian postman working for the Serb authorities, or even just one who questioned KLA strategy." If proved, the charges against Thaci could be embarrassing for Washington, which on Thursday put a $5 million bounty on the head of another war thug...
...congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "He?s been in the Senate 23 years. He?s 65 years old. If he was ever going to run, he might as well do it now." Hatch made his unofficial announcement Tuesday in his favorite public-speaking venue ?- the Senate hallway -? and promised a low-key formal announcement in a few days. And he?s warning that "my life has been a long string of surprises...
...MISSION] Provide information on how to detect very low levels of chemicals. Moths could also be trained like wasps...