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• Is this officially a crash?
... In an expansion, the economy grows. Manufacturers build new factories, retailers open more stores and, most of the time, companies hire additional workers. The 1990s was a decade of growth, the longest peacetime economic expansion in U.S. history.
• Parties wage war over voter fraud, intimidation
... officials have been reporting to NASS this week that there has been a slowdown in the Social Security database, which could create delays in verifying voter registrations. The issues of registration and voting are sensitive in part due to the history ...
• Trial Ordered For Ex-Wife Accused Of Framing Teacher
... remained out of the classroom in the final days of the term last year, but officials said he would return to the classroom this fall. Sunny Hills High has consistently ranked as one of the nation's top high schools, and Abbott has taught history there ...
• New exhibit puts focus on Gordon Parks
Heather Campbell Coyle, associate curator at the Delaware Art Museum and a University of Delaware doctoral student in art history, was teaching a class in the history of photography when she learned of the Parks retrospective. She jumped at the ...
• Small banks court depositors amid crisis
The collapse of Washington Mutual Inc. late last month was the largest bank failure in U.S. history, but didn't cost the government anything because the thrift was immediately sold to JPMorganChase & Co. for $1.9 billion. Yet the flurry of enticements ...