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New York Times, July 28, 2008 – Worried Banks Sharply Reduce Business Loans Federal Reserve Board Current Survey: “The April 2008 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices addressed changes in the supply of, and demand for, bank loans to businesses and households over the past three months.1 Special questions in the survey …
New York Times: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?: “Few who believe in the potential of the Web deny the value of books. But they argue that it is unrealistic to expect all children to read To Kill a Mockingbird or Pride and Prejudice for fun. And those who prefer staring at a television …
Country Profile: Federal Republic of Nigeria, July 2008 Country Profile: United Mexican States, July 2008
News release: “…a new report by U.S.-based consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch, Whats Behind the Global Food Crisis? How Trade Policy Undermined Africa’s Food Self-Sufficiency, found that the steady increase in food cultivation in Africa between 1980s and early 1990s slowed after the WTO went into effect in 1995. Non-food cash crop cultivation …
Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries – How Deterrable Are They Likely to Be?, July 2008, by David Ochmanek, Lowell H. Schwartz. “The United States and other members of the international community are striving to convince North Korea, Iran, and other states to forgo the development of nuclear weapons. If they do not succeed, the consequences for U.S. …
Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems, Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6, U.S. Climate Change Science Program And the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, July 2008 [284 pages, PDF]. “This report focuses on impacts of global climate change, especially impacts on three broad dimensions of …
Failed Bank Information – First National Bank of Nevada, Reno, NV, July 25, 2008: “This Bank was closed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Subsequently, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named Receiver. All deposits have been assumed by Mutual of Omaha Bank, Omaha, NB. Failed Bank Information – First …
News release: “Even as the last of the stimulus checks that have blunted the worst effects of the economic downturn are cashed, the economy remains poised on the brink of what could be a prolonged period of economic stagnation. According to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), Congress and …
News release: “People with early Alzheimers disease who had better fitness ratings had less atrophy in key brain areas associated with memory, according to research reported [July 27, 2008] at the 2008 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimers Disease (ICAD 2008) in Chicago…”These studies reinforce the need for increased awareness and education about the importance …
Via The Memory Hole, “On a subpage of their Freedom of Info Act website, the Defense Department today has posted 127 pages of documents concerning embedded media. The file may be downloaded here: DOD FOIA Reading Room.” Related article from the New York Times, July 26, 2008 – 4,000 U.S. Deaths, and a Handful of …
Follow up to July 23, 2008 posting on the House passage of H.R. 3221, on July 26 the Senate passed the bill, which now goes to the President for signature. CBS/AP: “Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000 struggling homeowners Saturday as part of an election-year housing plan that also aims to calm jittery financial markets …
