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...make up the top three. Unemployment figures are certain to rise when the bureau releases its next set of figures on Nov. 7. Some economists are predicting that unemployment will go higher than 8% nationwide before the end of the year and continue to climb toward the modern record of 10.8%, seen...
...forecasts show GDP growth slipping until sometime in the latter part of 2009, when it is expected to inch upward again. But even an uptick in broad economic indicators after next year is unlikely to ease unemployment. The high unemployment rates taking shape now are likely to hover near record levels for some time, because economic recoveries in recent decades have tended to go forward without generating many jobs...
...soccer team started the year off on the wrong foot. The squad traveled to the West Coast only to return with two losses, giving up four goals and failing to score once. Over the course of the next six matches, the Crimson responded, going undefeated to improve its record to 3-2-3. But during these six games, the team’s offensive performance remained stagnant, producing only seven goals on the offensive end. This alarming trend hurt Harvard as it began its Ivy season traveling to Philadelphia, where the Penn women thumped the Crimson to the tune...
...attack against his opponent, describing McCain as having an intellectual bankruptcy that has left him dependent on small change. "If you can't beat your opponent's ideas, you distort those ideas and maybe make some up," Obama said of McCain's tactics. "If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run away from. You make a big election about small things...
...Perhaps, but only if the authorities in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland keep their end of the deal. And a look at the track record on controlling piracy of the authorities in Puntland and elsewhere in Somalia does little to inspire confidence. The pirates operate their increasingly lucrative industry with impunity from a number of fishing villages along the Puntland coast, where they currently hold at least 12 vessels, and more than 200 of their crew members, awaiting ransom payments. The best known of these is the Ukrainian freighter MV Faina, and its cargo of tanks and other...