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Dolly's hello less stormy than feared
Briefs-KcHurricane.txt.ART Dolly's hello less stormy than feared Texas ++++++++++++++++++++ || AP photo by David J. Phillip || ++++++++++++++++++++...Tags: Tropical Storms
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Dolly downgraded to tropical storm in south Texas
The Associated PressForecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical storm. At 11 p.m. Eastern, the center of the storm was about 55 miles northwest of Brownsville, Texas. The storm is moving west at nearly seven miles-per-hour. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center...Tags: Weather Warnings, Tropical Storms, Disasters, Tropical Weather, Meteorological Disasters
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A Pay Raise For Millions
Associated PressAbout 2 million Americans get a raise today as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers. The increase, from $5.85 to...Tags: Labor Legislation, Small Businesses, Lehman Brothers Holdings Incorporated, Economic Policy, Employees
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House Responds to Housing Crisis
Los Angeles TimesThe House approved a sweeping plan Wednesday that responds to the most serious housing crisis since the Great Depression by providing a federal backstop for struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and aid to homeowners facing foreclosure....Tags: Sam Johnson, Nancy Pelosi, Fannie Mae, House, George Bush
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Hurricane Dolly Weakens Inland In South Texas
Associated PressHurricane Dolly barreled into south Texas on Wednesday, lashing the coast with winds as high as 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that threatened to flood low-lying areas, but sparing levees along the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley. Authorities had...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Tropical Storms, Fires, Disasters, Meteorological Disasters
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Dollar can't buck the trend lower vs. peso
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe super peso is back. As rising interest rates draw capital south of the border, Mexico's currency is trading near a six-year high against the U.S. dollar and is poised to crack the psychological 10-peso-to-the-buck barrier. The peso closed at 10.007...Tags: New York, Central Bank, Foreign Exchange Market, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Economic Policy
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BUSH-GAFFE-HNS@
BC-BUSH-GAFFE-HNS BUSH COMPARES WALL STREET TO DRUNK WITH HANGOVER By JULIE MASON AND ALAN BERNSTEIN Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON — Unaware he was being recorded, President Bush at a Houston fundraiser last week compared Wall Street...Tags: National Government, George Bush, Government, The White House, Consumer Electronics Industry
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Table hopping
Coming attraction After years of speculation and anticipation, it looks as though the beer-, pork- and fish-focused restaurant by chef Paul Kahan finally has a name: The Publican. Finally. But what the heck does the name mean? Short for the political...Tags: Colorado, Food and Dining Culture, Charlie Trotter
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'Four Presidents on Television' at the Billy Wilder Theatre
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAt the New York World's Fair on April 30, 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first commander in chief to appear on television when he formally opened the festivities on a NBC telecast. Since that time, every president and presidential...Tags: National Government, Political Candidates, Dwight David Eisenhower, NBC, Harry S Truman
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Dolly roars into Texas as a mega-rain producer
Hurricane Dolly, after days of ingesting humid, energy-rich Gulf air over bathtub warm waters, roared onto South Padre Island in Texas with 100 m.p.h. winds at 1 p.m. Wednesday. In so doing, it became the first hurricane to make landfall on the U.S....Tags: Weather Reports, Disasters, Louisiana, Meteorological Disasters, Natural Disasters
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