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Making the world safe for multipolarity
America's unipolar moment is over. Now, shaping a multipolar global order is the crucial, overarching foreign policy challenge for President-elect Barack Obama. In his Nov. 23 Times Op-Ed article, "Obama’s multipolar moment," A. Wess Mitchell...Tags: Richard Nixon, Constitutional Issues, United Nations, Henry Kissinger, G8
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Boca Raton Children's Museum building to resemble early pioneer house
Forum Publishing GroupThe 19th century home of a city pioneer is the inspiration for the design of a building to be constructed soon at the Boca Raton Children's Museum. The museum expects to break ground early next year on the Rickards House, a two-story structure to...Tags: Architecture, Boca Raton, People, Tourism and Leisure, Thomas Moore
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County opens new bridge over Gunpowder Falls
Baltimore County has completed construction of a bridge over Gunpowder Falls on Big Falls Road off Monkton Road in Hereford, officials said. It was opened to traffic last week after 14 months of construction. The replacement of the original, 1933 bridge... -
Ford says CEO will work for $1 to get federal loans
The Associated PressFord Motor Co. will tell Congress that it plans to return to a pretax profit or break even in 2011 when the Detroit Three automakers' CEOs appear before lawmakers this week to request $25 billion in government loans. Ford CEO Alan Mulally said he'll work...Tags: Employees, Saturn, Automotive Equipment, Corporate Officers, CEO Pay
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Obama works Congress to 'hit the ground running'
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — As President-elect Barack Obama looks toward Inauguration Day, coordination with Congress could produce a remarkable result: Democrats may try to pass an economic stimulus bill even before Obama takes office Jan. 20, and have it on...Tags: Commerce, Henry Waxman, Jimmy Carter, National Government, Bill Clinton
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America without its automakers
Today's question: What's wrong with letting U.S. automakers fail? Later in the week, Gary Burtless and Daniel J. Ikenson will debate labor costs for domestic car manufacturers, subsidies for vehicle buyers and more.
Bankruptcy works for many companies --...Tags: Employees, Automotive Equipment, Petroleum Industry, Unemployment, Interior Policy
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Slippery when wet—but ever so pretty
Tribune reporterThere are few better places in Chicago to experience the city's austere beauty or wintry lack of friction than from the Michigan Avenue Bridge, where unchecked winds blast cheeks pink, where salt crystals crackle like gravel underfoot, and where every...Tags: Transportation, Venice, Trump Tower, Wrigley Building, Road Transportation
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Ties to Hill bridge Obama to Democrats in Congress
Tribune Washington BureauAs a congressman and leader of a party campaign committee, Rahm Emanuel helped 54 Democrats win the House seats they hold today. When Tom Daschle was the Senate Democratic leader, he contributed more than $1.5 million to help a new generation of...Tags: Commerce, Henry Waxman, National Government, Bill Clinton, Parliament
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Fans travel to Cleveland for 25th anniversary of Christmas film favorite
Fans of the holiday classic A Christmas Story are celebrating the film's 25th anniversary with a convention and trips to the Cleveland house where the movie was made. The 1983 film, an adaptation of Jean Shepard's memoir of a boy in the 1940s, was set in...Tags: Religious Festivals, Christmas, Santa Claus
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Goodyear Dunlop cuts 147 jobs in western New York
Union officials say Goodyear Dunlop has cut 147 jobs at its western New York plant because of a slowdown in tire sales. The company announced plans to reduce its Tonawanda workforce in October, saying it was decreasing production of passenger auto tires...Tags: Unions, Vehicles
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Kings Point public works plan upsets Great Neck Village
christina.hernandez@newsday.comGreat Neck Village residents, worried about diminishing forest land, increased pollution and bad effects on their property values, are upset about neighboring Kings Point Village's plan to build a 10,000-square-foot public works department near their...Tags: Construction, Great Neck, Vehicles, Ethics, Legal Services
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NPR journalists escape bombing attack in western Baghdad
Associated Press WriterBAGHDAD (AP) _ An American journalist for National Public Radio and three Iraqi colleagues escaped injury Sunday when a bomb attached to their car exploded as it was parked along a street in west Baghdad. Ivan Watson, a 33 year-old reporter for NPR on...Tags: Defense, Radio, Bombings, Vehicles, Armed Conflicts
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