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...rise of part-time and temporary workers, and near-zero interest rates. Total private-sector consumer income (wages, interest, self-employed income, etc.) was lower in 2004 (the latest year for which figures are available) than in 1997. The main source of any income growth has been government transfer payments, such as social security and health care, but these programs are being cut back to reduce the budget deficit. As households have dipped into their savings, so consumption has lagged. The household-savings rate has tumbled from 10% in 1997 to 3% in 2004. Very nearly one-quarter...
TIME colleagues pushed for my transfer from Baghdad to the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. They then joined my friends and sister Leslie Flesch in lobbying to get acting Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee to admit me to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, making me the first reporter wounded in combat known to have received such treatment at the premier hospital reserved for soldiers...
Agganis Arena. 925 Commonwealth Avenue. Take the T to Park Street, transfer to the Westbound Green Line “B” train to the St. Paul Street stop. $35. www.agganisarena.com...
...Boston Fish Pier: take the Red Line to South Station, transfer to the Silver Line (Outbound) to World Trade Center Station. Walk one block towards the NE on Viaduct St. Turn right on Northern Ave. $15 admission charge includes half-dozen oysters, and the first 300 shellfish aficionados get free t-shirts. 21+. Slurp...
...after the Prime Minister's office explained its case against the judge and urged the IHT president to take action, said Basam Ridha, adviser to the Prime Minister. It was voted on and approved by the Council of Ministers on Tuesday. The Iraqi President is expected to certify the transfer in the coming day. "The Maliki government chose the decisive route," says Ridha. "We felt that the defense attorneys and Saddam Hussein kind of ruled the court...