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Toyota says new US auto plant delayed
AP Business WriterA senior Toyota executive said Monday that plans for a new auto assembly plant in Mississippi are being delayed by worries about slumping American auto sales and a broader U.S. economic slowdown. The vehicle assembly plant being built in Blue Springs,...Tags: Real Estate Sales, Plant Openings, Sales, National Government, Earnings Forecasts
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Army Corps says Condition of many levees a mystery
Associated Press WriterAcross America, earthen flood levees protect big cities and small towns, wealthy suburbs and rich farmland. But the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that oversees levees, lacks an inventory of thousands of them and has no idea of their...Tags: Inventories, Meteorological Disasters, National Government, Government, Disasters
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CSI meets Wild Kingdom at Boca Raton wildlife forensics lab
South Florida Sun-SentinelEvery fish scale is classified; every strand of fur is scrutinized. Jugs of chemicals line the walls beside fingerprint powder and orange-tinted lab glasses. Fragments of animals' lives are cataloged in postmortem photos. There's a freezer filled with...Tags: Trials, Natural Resources, Nature, Wildlife, Fishing
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Is it age discrimination or a legal maneuver?
Special to the SentinelWhen 56-year-old Murray picked up his paycheck one Friday, he was shocked to find a pink slip inside. The slip directed the insurance salesman to apply for "early retirement." "But I'll only get half my retirement benefits if I stop working now," Murray...Tags: Discrimination, Minority Groups, Laws, Retirement, Wages and Pensions
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Miss. Race Tests The Political Winds
Mississippi's 1st Congressional District, the northernmost in the most culturally Southern state, has given the nation William Faulkner and Elvis Presley, and Tuesday will have a special congressional election that will test the Republican hope that...Tags: Political Candidates, Government, Parliament, National Government, Executive Branch
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Jockey Desormeaux has enjoyed quite a ride
ed.mcnamara@newsday.comIt was the skinny little rider's first road trip, and beginnings were never more humble. All the way from Abbeville, deep in Louisiana's Cajun country, to Kiln, Miss., 13-year-old Kent Desormeaux rode in a horse trailer with an oddly marked animal named...Tags: Equestrian, Churchill Downs, California, Louisiana, New York
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Mounting election losses have GOP looking into mirror
Washington PostWASHINGTON — Since losing 30 seats and their 12-year stranglehold on power in 2006, House Republicans have kept asking themselves the same question: Can it get any worse? On Tuesday, they may get another answer they won't like. With lots of help...Tags: Upper House, Political Candidates, Parliament, Local Elections, Referenda
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High demand, price of rice good news to US farmers
Associated Press WriterDipping its left wing, a canary-yellow biplane makes a sharp turn and dives over a flooded field, showering rice on the shallow water 15 feet below. It's aerial seeding season for rice farmers in California, which produces about 20 percent of the crop...Tags: Droughts, Fertilizer, Prices, California, Arkansas
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Obama and McCain have rifts to heal
Sun reporterIn Western Maryland's Allegany County, where Barack Obama got less than one-third of the vote in the state's Feb. 12 Democratic primary, Bill DuVall knows his neighbors harbor misgivings about the man who appears likely to be the party's presidential...Tags: Polls, Avalanches and Landslides, Executive Branch, Primaries, National Government
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Barack Obama faces an untested set of hurdles
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersFor the first time, a major political party is on the brink of choosing an African American as its candidate for president, but when Democratic strategists and other analysts look ahead, they don't see race as Barack Obama's biggest challenge. They worry...Tags: Parties and Movements, National or Ethnic Minorities, Polls, Elections, National Government
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