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Auto industry to press Congress for $50B in loans
Associated Press WriterAuto industry allies hope to secure up to $50 billion in government loans this month that would pay to modernize plants and help struggling car makers build more fuel-efficient vehicles. With Congress returning this coming week from its summer break,...Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Automotive Equipment, Plant Openings, Elections, Sales
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Armenians protest Turkish leader's visit
YEREVAN, Armenia Thousands of Armenians lined the streets of the capital yesterday to protest the first visit by a Turkish leader and to demand that Turkey acknowledge the World War I massacres of Armenian civilians as genocide. Turkish President Abdullah...Tags: Massacres, Government, Abdullah Gul
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Congress demands probe into anthrax case
WASHINGTON A month after the FBI declared that an Army scientist was the anthrax killer, leading members of Congress are demanding more information about the seven-year investigation, saying they do not think the bureau has proved its case. In a letter...Tags: Parliament, Upper House, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Government, Suicide
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Advertising •gkv announced the appointments of Meredith Gilbert and Haley Ulloa as assistant account executives for the Baltimore-based marketing firm and named Johnny Vo as associate manager for GKV REACH, the agency's social marketing division....Tags: Marketing, Gary Anderson, Wages and Pensions, Newspapers, Government
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Personality emerges as tight race's pivot point
Barack Obama holds a slight advantage over John McCain going into the final phase of the 2008 campaign, which is shaping up more as a personality contest than a battle of ideas.
Both candidates are framing the choice for voters around a theme of change,...Tags: Sarah Palin, Scranton, Elections, Executive Branch, Bill Clinton
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Biden looks forward to debate against Palin
Baltimore Sun reporterWASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Joe Biden says he's debated "an awful lot of tough, smart women" throughout his career and that next month's vice presidential debate with Republican Sarah Palin will be no exception. But he'd like to know where she stands on...Tags: Sarah Palin, John McCain, Joe Biden, Executive Branch, Government
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Housing slump fails to spark soaring rents
Good news, apartment hunters: The slump in home sales and rise in foreclosures haven't meant skyrocketing rents. Many landlords are increasing monthly rental costs more slowly than usual. Average rents rose 2 percent in the Baltimore metro area from a...Tags: Apartments, Rentals, Downtown (Baltimore, Maryland), Housing Industry, Government
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Md. partisans fire up for swing states
As Republicans celebrated their convention's choice of Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Howard County Democrats were mobilizing to help push their nominees - Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden - into the White House. At the Democrats' annual...Tags: Sarah Palin, Joe Lieberman, Biotechnology, Elections, Republican National Conventions
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'Trumbo' examines a bleak, fearful time
In 1950, Dalton Trumbo, a top Hollywood screenwriter, was sent to federal prison for maintaining that his political beliefs were a personal matter and none of Congress' business. After serving his sentence he was punished again when the studios barred him...Tags: Spencer Tracy, Ginger Rogers, Kirk Douglas, Government, Film Festivals
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Viewpoint: 'McCain the maverick' no longer exists
Sen. John McCain has an impressive personal story. Imprisoned by the North Vietnamese for 5 1/2 years, mostly in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton," he showed great courage, resilience and reservoirs of strength. It is the central narrative of his life, a...Tags: Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, George Bush, Family
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At Madison's Montpelier, what's old is new again
Associated PressIt isn't exactly common to make a house two-thirds smaller, or to remove the indoor plumbing. But that's what's been done at Montpelier, the plantation mansion of President James Madison. The brick Georgian home at the foothills of the Blue Ridge...Tags: Public Holidays, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Thanksgiving, Mount Vernon, Government
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It's not business, Barack, just personal
There's Audacity of Hope," John Coale was saying, "and then there's just audacity." Coale - the big-time Democratic fundraiser and Clintonite who lent $500,000 to Martin O'Malley's campaign in the last days of the governor's race - made that crack...Tags: Sarah Palin, Executive Branch, Elections, Clubs and Associations, Hillary Clinton
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