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Bush: Oil-drilling, hurricanes and storms
The Swampby Mark Silva President Bush is trying to change the subject. The subject all week and this coming week: Hurricanes and tropical storms. The ones that have passed and the ones coming. The story line is good: Recovery efforts so......Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Market and Exchange, Disasters, National Government, Energy
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Radio Sarah!
Spin CycleKnowing a good thing when he sees it, McCain hands over his weekly radio package to Palin. Text, after the jump. Nothing that new, but here's the audio and the text is after the jump if you're interested.......Tags: The White House, Radio, State Budgets, Sarah Palin, Regional Authority
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Price increases push US soy beyond reach of poor
AP Environmental WriterWith the dollar a day he earns scrounging for scrap metal and paper, Jumadi can't buy his family beef or even chicken. But until now, the rail-thin scavenger could at least afford soy. His wife and two children snacked on slabs of fried fermented soy,...Tags: Plant Openings, Prices, Sales, Heavy Engineering, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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U.S. highway fund runs near empty
Associated PressThe federal highway trust fund will run out of money this month, requiring delays in payments to states for transportation construction projects, Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters said yesterday. The trust fund - a federal account used to help...Tags: The White House, Public Transportation, Mary E. Peters, National Government, Transportation
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Bush makes U-turn on highway funding
With the nation's highway fund running out of money faster than expected, the Bush administration on Friday pulled a political U-turn and urged Congress to approve an $8 billion rescue plan that the White House had previously opposed. The fund's...Tags: The White House, Road Transportation, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Transportation
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State's payouts top $3,200
ANCHORAGE — It's the season for Alaskans to be rewarded just for living here, and this year's take is extra sweet: $3,269, a record share of the state's oil wealth combined with a special cash payout to help with stratospheric energy prices. Lt....Tags: Political Candidates, Executive Branch, Elections, Sarah Palin, Energy
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Tag-teaming Pennsylvania
and Scott Kraus Of The Morning Call| The talk was guns and butter Friday for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as he barnstormed blue-collar Pennsylvania. At a precision glass company here, the Illinois senator vowed to reinvigorate the nation's manufacturing sector by, among...Tags: Barack Obama, Unemployment, National Government, Political Candidates, Hillary Clinton
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Left in the dust by Toyota, Honda hypes new hybrid
Automotive EditorHonda was the first to the U.S. market with a gasoline-electric hybrid car, the little banana-shaped Insight, which went on sale in 1999. But Honda let the Insight die a slow death, giving it virtually no updates, while Toyota continued to improve its...Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Honda Motor Co., Automotive Equipment, Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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Florida Sen. Bill Nelson urges Americans to break addiction to oil
South Florida Sun-SentinelSen. Bill Nelson advocated a bipartisan approach to developing alternative energy sources to wean the United States from its oil dependence during a speech before the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches on Friday afternoon. "Our national debt and our reliance...Tags: Republican National Conventions, Bill Nelson, Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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WORLD & NATION UPDATE: AT HOME
Capitol Police arrested a man Friday after they found a grenade and several weapons in his car several blocks from the Capitol building. Christopher Shelton Timmons, 27, of Orange, Va., was charged with carrying a deadly weapon and possessing unregistered...Tags: Diseases, Vehicles, Firearms, Fannie Mae, Cancer
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Oil prices creating slick sledding
Of The Associated PressConventional wisdom had long held that some industries would collapse if oil topped $100 a barrel. As oil neared $150, sending costs higher for everything from jet fuel to plastic jars, the question was how many companies would succumb. The surprising...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Consumers, Corporate Officers, Newell Rubbermaid Incorporated, Prices
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Disarray mars Angola election
The Associated PressAngola stumbled on the road to democracy Friday, with voters waiting for hours to take part in the first election in 16 years as ballot shortages and a lack of voting officials played havoc at the polls. The voting follows one of Africa's longest civil...Tags: Civil Rights, Wars and Interventions, Human Rights, Parliament, Referenda
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