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Baltimore Sun, Dec 15, 2004, page D1


"Trade Gap Swelled To Record High in October"

$55.5 billion in Oct, alone

8.9% more than September


* imports

Curves: * X exports
X
*X


"Health Benefits for Retirees Shrinking Fast"

says 8 percent of >1000 employee employers eliminated benefits for
retirees this year and another 11 percent will eliminate them for next
year.

Page 2D; Merck to lay off over 5000 (mainly attributed to problems with
Vioxx)

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straydog wrote:
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> Baltimore Sun, Dec 15, 2004, page D1
>
>
> "Trade Gap Swelled To Record High in October"
>
> $55.5 billion in Oct, alone
>
> 8.9% more than September
>
>
> * imports
>
> Curves: * X exports
> X
> *X
>
>
> "Health Benefits for Retirees Shrinking Fast"
>
> says 8 percent of >1000 employee employers eliminated benefits for
> retirees this year and another 11 percent will eliminate them for next
> year.
>
> Page 2D; Merck to lay off over 5000 (mainly attributed to problems with
> Vioxx)

I just read this on Yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...sumer_debt_poll

I also read an article in one of the local papers this morning about how
some Gen-Xers are struggling to get by with their heavy debt loads.
Some of those burdens were self-inflicted with the money spent on frippery.

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