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Ronald Reagan (Feb. 6, 1911 ¿ June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California.
Ronald Reagan (Feb. 6, 1911 ¿ June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California.
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Trillion: It's the new billion
The Associated PressThere's an old saying attributed to Everett Dirksen, the Illinois senator who dotted his speeches with colorful rants against government borrowing: A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money. Not these days, you're not....Tags: John McCain, Illinois, John Kerry, Government Debt, Punishment
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How can this economic meltdown be fixed?
Special To The Chicago TribuneSo far, the government's efforts to stabilize the country's financial system don't seem to be working that well. Some economic experts have sketched out a few solutions. Spend big, spend bold on infrastructure Focus on a government program to build...Tags: Local Authority, David Jones, Money and Monetary Policy, Economic Policy, Massachusetts
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Economic Relief 'Gaining Steam'
Associated PressTreasury Secretary Henry Paulson told international leaders on Sunday that isolationism and protectionism could worsen the spreading financial crisis. With a new trading week dawning, U.S. lawmakers urged quick action by the Bush administration on...Tags: Arlen Specter, The White House, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Roy Blunt
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US Senate race gives Iowans clear choice
AP Political WriterVoters can't complain this year that they don't have a clear choice in the race for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Tom Harkin. In politics, history, style and personality, Harkin and Republican challenger Christopher Reed offer the starkest of...Tags: Parliament, Agricultural Research and Technology, National Government, Upper House, Republican Party
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Credit crisis fixes: Six ideas here
The Swampby William Neikirk A major economic stimulus package, including funds to rebuild the nation's infrastructure, is shaping up as one of the top ideas for responding to the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. Asked to name key measures that......Tags: Local Authority, Massachusetts, Chicago Mortgages, Securities, Derivative Securities
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Bank stock purchase pushed; 'no' to protectionism
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told international leaders today that isolationism and protectionism could worsen the spreading financial crisis. With a new trading week dawning, U.S. lawmakers urged quick action by the Bush administration on measures to...Tags: Arlen Specter, Barack Obama, Banking, The White House, Massachusetts
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Obama: Thought Ayers was rehabilitated
Spin CycleThe GOP seems to have fired up the kettles of interest against on Obama-Ayers. So, Obama was asked it about today in a radio talk with Michael Smerconish, a conservative radio talk show host in Philadelphia. Audio is at......Tags: John McCain, Colleges and Universities, David Axelrod, Weather Underground, Republican Party
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McCain-Obama III: What sacrifices would you seek?
Spin CycleMcCain: Would get rid of programs that are not working. Cites opposition to a tanker project from the Department of Defense the he found wasfeful. Another shot at Obama on earmarks. Calls for "full transparency" not "shoving earmarks into programs."......Tags: Social Security, Wages and Pensions, National Government, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Private Health Care
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Active lifestyles benefit people in their later years
Special to NewsdayIn the presidential election year of 1984, age was an issue, as it is now. That year, the age in question was President Ronald Reagan's. He was 73 - too old, some said, to be president. During a televised debate with Democratic opponent Walter Mondale,...Tags: Tennis, Demographics, Marathon, Death and Dying, Walter Mondale
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Paul West: Prevailing electoral winds augur big Democratic gains in Congress
Every so often, luck and circumstance give birth to an accidental congressman or senator, a politician who lands in Washington mainly by being in the right place at the right time. Once in a very long while, those accidents come in droves. That's what...Tags: The White House, Barack Obama, Oregon, Kentucky, Disasters
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Democrats, Republicans Pitch To Jewish Voters
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman ended his week pitching John McCain to Jewish voters in Pennsylvania, where Jews had been cool to Barack Obama in the presidential primary. Before breaking for Yom Kippur, Lieberman also had worked both coasts of Florida, touting...Tags: John Edwards, Civil Unrest, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Louis Farrakhan
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CAPE HENRY PRECINCT: Its voters have sided with the winner in the past three statewide elections.
247-4765Pull up a chair on Shelby Balderson's front porch on 54th Street in Virginia Beach, and she'll nonchalantly map out the neighborhood's jigsaw puzzle of partisan politics with pinpoint precision. Balderson's lived on the street for almost six decades,...Tags: Law Enforcement, Tony Rezko, Weather Underground, National Government, Barack Obama
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