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Industry group kicks off free-trade tour at Audiovox
emi.endo@newsday.comA consumer-technology industry group kicked off a multistate tour promoting the benefits of free trade at the headquarters of Audiovox in Hauppauge yesterday. The Consumer Electronics Association, which has 2,200 members in the consumer technology...Tags: Consumers, Government, Corporate Officers, Consumer Electronics Industry, National Government
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Market Pulse: Focus On Housing
Home Builders' Outlook Lowest In Two Decades Home builders' business outlook plunged this month to the lowest level since record-keeping began more than 20 years ago. Industry conditions have worsened as the housing slump, rising gas prices and...Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Marketing, Sales, Consumer Confidence, House Building
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June home construction falls to lowest level since '91
ellen.yan@newsday.comConstruction of new, single-family homes slid in June to the lowest level since 1991, the Commerce Department reported yesterday. June's 647,000 housing starts nationwide fell 5.3 percent from May's 683,000 and 43 percent from a year ago, data show. The...Tags: Long Island, Sales, Moody's Corporation, House Building, Petroleum Industry
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ON THE TRAIL
Democrat Barack Obama said yesterday that as president he would send at least two more combat brigades to Afghanistan, where U.S. troops face rising violence and endured their deadliest attack in three years on Sunday. The proposed force increase, about...Tags: Government, National Government, San Diego (San Diego, California), Barack Obama, Economic Policy
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LI builders weather slump in home construction
ellen.yan@newsday.comConstruction of new, single-family homes slid in June to the lowest level since 1991, the Commerce Department reported yesterday. June's 647,000 housing starts fell 5.3 percent from May's 683,000 and 43 percent from a year ago, data show. The last...Tags: Long Island, Sales, Moody's Corporation, House Building, Petroleum Industry
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Disaster status sought for Great South Bay clams
jennifer.smith@newsday.comClam harvests in the Great South Bay were in steep decline by the time brown tide arrived on Long Island in 1985, but this year's historically most widespread algae bloom has generated renewed concern and an unprecedented attempt to involve the federal...Tags: Long Island Sound, Long Island, Government, Patchogue, New York
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Dionne: Old economic assumptions are toppling
E. J. Dionne, Jr. is a syndicated columnist based at the Washington PostThe biggest political story of 2008 is the collapse of assumptions that have dominated our economic debate for three decades. Since the Reagan years, free market cliches have passed for sophisticated economic analysis. But in the current crisis these...Tags: Interior Policy, Federal Reserve, Barack Obama, Investment Service, Ben Bernanke
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Trade deal pushes migrants to flee
In her letter "Acting to deter hiring of illegals" (July 11), Annapolis Alderwoman Julie M. Stankivic states that people who enter this country "must be held accountable" and that she, as a local elected official, takes responsibility for enforcing the...Tags: Annapolis, Economic Policy, Treaties, Trade Agreements, Trade Dispute
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Letters to the editor
Cover letters Re "Cover charges," editorial, "Has it gotten so difficult to recognize satire?" July 15 and "If you can't take a joke ...," Opinion, July 16 Let me explain the difference between funny and not funny. Funny exaggerates a reality that no...Tags: Government, National Government, Arcadia, Barack Obama, Bonds
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McCain reiterates support for NAFTA
Of The Associated PressIn one of his strongest endorsements of free trade, Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday called himself ''an unapologetic supporter of NAFTA,'' an agreement that many Americans feel has cost them jobs. ''I reject the false virtues of...Tags: Health Treatments, Illegal Immigrants, Migration, Government, Immigration
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