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- Krugman, once again, tells the truth. Buying Into Failure Privatization dissipates a large fraction of workers' contributions on fees to investment companies. It leaves many retirees in poverty. |
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- Guard Reports Serious Decline in Recruitment In addition, the head of the National Guard Bureau, Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum, said on Thursday that he needed $20 billion to replace arms and equipment destroyed in Iraq and Afghanistan or left there for other Army and Air Guard units to use, so that returning reservists will have enough equipment to deal with emergencies at home. |
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- True Love of Country in England KINGHAM, England When Chris Harvey walks out of his house, Wiggals Corner, and ambles around the streets of his adopted village, the retired postman and amateur cider-maker rarely gets too far. |
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- Hard times place Bakersfield theater group in fading spotlight Local nonprofit theater The Empty Space is facing closure in 2005 unless it's able to raise enough money to cover the rent. |
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- Council bids Salvaggio warm, irreverent adieu Vice Mayor David Couch gave Salvaggio an irreverent scrapbook. "What do you say to someone who has worked on the City Council for 19 years," Couch said. "Were ya nuts?" |
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- Asthma burdens Valley schools Researchers explored a variety of issues concerning asthma, a respiratory disease that is a growing epidemic for school-age children in the eight-county region from Bakersfield to Stockton. The Valley's polluted air is a major factor in the frequency and severity of asthma symptoms in children, researchers said. |
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- 2 state regions have worst soot in U.S. The San Joaquin Valley and the Los Angeles air basin have the highest levels of soot pollution in the nation, the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday as it targeted 13 of the state's counties for failing to meet new air-quality standards. |
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- Drivers to pay $2 to fight pollution The board approved the fee on a 10-1 vote with board member Mike Maggard, a Bakersfield City Council member, dissenting. The Department of Motor Vehicles will tack on the $2 fee in April, and the surcharge will remain in place until 2015. |
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- Court slaps city on Wal-Mart The 5th District Court of Appeal in Fresno ruled Monday that the city of Bakersfield failed to properly examine the environmental impacts of the two large south Bakersfield retail projects. Judges said the city bungled the hearings on the project's environmental effects and failed to study impacts on transportation and animals. |
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- Jobless in Kern County Agriculture is the engine that drives the local economy, but seasonal nature of work casts pall of unemployment over community |
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- Jobless rate edges higher Unemployment inched up from October's revised 10.7 percent to November's 11.9 percent, the state reported Friday. |
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- Unemployment hits everyone's wallet "(High unemployment) has ramifications for just about every measure of economic well-being for a community," said Stephen Raphael, an associate professor of public policy at University of California at Berkeley. |
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- Job hunt can be deflating He moved to Bakersfield from Houston in 2003. He had lost his job during a round of layoffs at the instrument distributor where worked for 18 years. Once in Bakersfield, he landed a job with a local distributor company. Six weeks later he was laid off again. |
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- Job woes don't seem to deter newcomers We know the number of county residents rose 21.4 percent -- compared to the state's 13.6 percent jump -- between 1990 and 2000. We know newcomers from coastal areas are bringing high housing prices with them, driving local home values through the roof. But we don't know where these newcomers are working. |
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- Farm laborers face multiple seasons of discontent Bautista and Lopez are like many of the roughly 15 percent |
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- EPA sets a strict new limit The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Friday announced a stringent new health standard for dangerous microscopic specks that come from wood fires, diesel exhaust, power plants and chemicals mixing in the moist winter air. |
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- Environmental Injustice Hilmar Cheese Co. able to avoid millions in potential fines despite polluting air and water, records reveal |
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- Merced in contention for midstate stop for high-speed trains If built, the high-speed rail system in California could have stops at the former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater or in the city of Merced. But neither was selected as a preferred stop at a California High-Speed Authority meeting in Los Angeles on Wednesday. |
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- Caltrans sues Fresno over fees Caltrans charges that the city's approval violated state law by failing to require that the Wathen project pay an estimated $283,000 in fees for its expected impacts on that interchange, even though a traffic study documented those impacts. |
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- Wal-Mart Supercenters Botched by City of Bakersfield But in his ruling, the judge stated that the decision was really about protecting the environment, not stopping Wal-Mart. |
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- State devising sprawl solution Parents are chasing that dream to cheaper, distant towns, then wasting time in cars commuting to work, which hurts families, burdens roads and produces pollution, he said. Perata has sprawl, the poorly planned placement of housing and population, at the top of his agenda. |
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- Google, 5 big libraries team to offer books Google Inc. has partnered with five of the world's leading libraries, including those at Stanford and Harvard, to digitally scan their collections so that the books can be searched, and in many cases read, online free of charge. |
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- Grand tradition C.J. Golondzinier and his wife, Carolyn, drove to Grant's Grove on Sunday and sensed something among the giant sequoia trees and patches of snow as they watched the 79th annual Nation's Christmas Tree ceremony. |
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- We will show you how to earn $500 to $8500 per month using our simple program, working from home part-time or full-time. Complete online training and support is provided. Free startup package! |
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- Work from home simply making cross necklaces. |
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- Company needs typists to work from home. Must have strong typing skills. This is a legit work at home career position with an established, reputable company. |
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- See-Through Sue Christmas Special ITEM See-Through Sue and Feather Too, the American Invisible Christmas Special, is going to be a good old-fashioned slugfest. Watch as the good guys battle the kind of bad, insecure, slightly disfunctional but ultimately well-intentioned guys. At stake is the future of the |
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- Project description: Provide a plugabble and configurable alternative to UNIX tools like grep, awk, tail, head, cut, sort, uniq or even some perl based scripts in a Java environment. A bit like what Apache Ant means to good old make. |
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- Forum: International Politics Posted By: MickityMike Post Time: 12-18-2004 at 09:28 PM |
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- QUOTE (Aaron @ Dec 18 2004, 03:07 PM) Really she's still able to find work? With all that money she had, and those massive tits, she can do pretty much whatever she wants. |
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- Using databases to prevent return abuses pits a U.S. Senator against a database vendor, with national retailers caught in the middle. By Evan Schuman, eWeek |
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- By Felicia R. Lee, New York Times |
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- Potential of scores of passengers talking on mobile phones during a lengthy flight has many travelers worried that their last quiet haven from such conversations will evaporate. By Reuters |
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- After years of taking a back seat to easier-to-crawl HTML pages, multimedia files are beginning to gain respect among search engines. By Matt Hicks, eWeek |
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- Elton John's vriend, David Furnish, ontkent de berichten dat hij met de excentrieke zanger gaat trouwen. De Canadese filmproducer, die al sinds begin jaren negentig een koppel vormt met Elton, zegt dat het koppel geen enkele intentie heeft om te huwen in de privkapel van David en Victoria Beckham op hun domein in Hertfordshire. |
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- Suffocation are great band. I saw them play about 2 months ago and they were incredible.I suppose the title tracks are real highlights from those albums, but both are excellent pieces of music. Good choice. |
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