By KEN BELSON : The thousands of recently planted green and purple shrublike sedum lining the roof of Con Edison’s training center in Long Island City look a bit out of place in the shadow of Manhattan’s skyline.
But the tiny absorbent leaves and modest but hardy roots of the sedum — typically found in desert […]
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by admin
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By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and PETER S. GOODMAN : Prices for goods purchased by American businesses surged more than expected in July and have jumped by nearly 10 percent over the last year — the sharpest increase since 1981.
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Posted on August 20th, 2008 by admin
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By MICHAEL COOPER
PITTSBURGH — Senator John McCain offered the broadest look yet at his economic policies in a speech here Tuesday, calling for tax cuts, a freeze of discretionary spending for a year, higher premiums for better-off Medicare recipients and elimination of federal gas taxes this summer to reinvigorate the sagging economy.
Mr. McCain, who made […]
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by admin
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By VIKAS BAJAJ : Almost everything seems to be going wrong for the American economy at once. People are buying less, but most things are costing more. Mortgage rates are rising, the dollar is falling and prices of key commodities like oil are leaping from one record high to the next.
On Thursday, the dollar plumbed […]
Posted on March 14th, 2008 by admin
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By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
TEHRAN — In one of the coldest winters Iranians have experienced in recent memory, the government is failing to provide natural gas to tens of thousands of people across the country, leaving some for days or even weeks with no heat at all. Here in the capital, rolling blackouts every night for […]
Posted on February 3rd, 2008 by admin
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By LOUIS UCHITELLE and MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
The nation’s employers eliminated 17,000 jobs in January, the government reported Friday, the first decline in the work force in more than four years, and the strongest signal yet that the United States may be in the early stages of a recession.
Politically, the job figures were particularly troubling […]
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by admin
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