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...Casper, Wyoming. "It may just be that we need one more election." Minutes after his comments, stock prices dropped 35 points. By the end of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 97.19 points, a steep decline that compounded a 67.55-point drop on Tuesday. It was the ninth-worst point drop ever, and the biggest since budget negotiations stalled on December 18. In shattering the prospect of the first balanced budget in three decades, the Speaker's remarks helped deepen investor pessimism about economic prospects. "What we're hearing from the market is that the absence...
...required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Backed by the local timber industry, lawyers for Douglas County in southwestern Oregon said Babbitt couldn't cut that corner. They sued the Interior Secretary along with two environmental groups. A federal judge ruled NEPA compliance was indeed required, but the Ninth Circuit court overruled that decision, saying, the Endangered Species Act allowed Babbitt an exemption from NEPA requirements in the spotted owl case. TIME's Adam Cohen notes that, in denying Douglas County's subsequent appeal, the Supreme Court is not necessarily concurring with the Ninth Circuit. "The court can only...
...page, single-spaced typed letter said that the group used the illustration for the word "afro" from the popular Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary...
There are two errors in your much appreciated article on my wife Julia Phelps (November 13): she died on October 4 (not October 2), in her seventy-ninth year...
...Dallas Mavericks lost to New York, their ninth in the last 10 games. Page...