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Obama called us to do in his inau-
single Republican vote gural address.”
Conn. lawmaker seeks Republicans said the bill was
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investigation of factory
President Obama, the Democratic- too much spending.
implicated in outbreak controlled House approved a his- The party’s House leader, Rep.
torically huge $819 billion stimulus John Boehner of Ohio, said the mea-
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signs of a leaking roof were among new spending and tax cuts at the will create plenty of programs and
numerous problems federal inspec- core of the young administration’s projects through slow-moving gov-
tors uncovered at a plant that kept revival plan for the desperately ail- ernment spending.”
shipping peanut butter even after it ing economy. On the final vote, the legisla-
was found to contain salmonella. The vote was 244-188, with tion drew overwhelming support
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viously at least 12 times in products White House as congressional allies alds a new era in Washington. President Obama urged swift passage of the plan. bipartisan measure is taking shape
made at the plant, but production hastened to do his bidding in the in the Senate. Some Republicans
lines were never cleaned up after face of the worst economic crisis on a companion measure already A mere eight days after Inaugu- have said they know they will have
tests indicated contamination, a since the Great Depression. taking shape. Democratic leaders ration Day, Speaker Nancy Pelosi a second chance to support a bill
government report said. Peanut The vote sent the bill to the have pledged to have legislation said Tuesday’s events heralded a when the final House-Senate com-
Corp. of America’s plant in Blakely, Senate, where debate is expect- ready for Obama’s signature by new era. “The ship of state is dif- promise emerges in a few weeks.
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on Wednesday defeated a bill to transition from the Feb. 17 deadline for four more months.
makes Venus look like
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a nice place to live, and
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strong push for peace ings” into Gaza. Israel and Egypt
China launches major have kept their borders with Gaza
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security sweep ahead
Mideast envoy promised a vigorous itant group Hamas seized control
of a key anniversary push for Israeli-Palestinian peace, of the territory in 2007.
saying Wednesday that Gaza mili- Mitchell embarked on his Mid-
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sweep in Tibet ahead of one of the and the territory’s blockaded bor- took office. After finishing his con-
area’s most sensitive anniversaries in ders must be opened if the cease- sultations in the region, he said he
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Tibetans ahead of the 50th anniver- after Israel’s military offensive center, in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Mitchell urged a longer-term Mideast truce. his seven-day tour. He was expected
sary of the failed against Gaza’s Hamas rulers. to hold talks with pro-Western Pal-
(cid:33) uprising that saw But a flare-up of violence in Gaza planes pounded Gaza smuggling drawing a second airstrike. estinian President Mahmoud Abbas
the Dalai Lama underscored the more immediate tunnels in reprisal for a Palestin- After talks in Jerusalem with in the West Bank on Thursday.
flee into exile. priority — shoring up the 10-day- ian bombing on Tuesday that killed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Mitchell has no plans to meet with
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A customer holds a coffee drink in front of a Starbucks coffee shop on Monday in
Seattle. The coffee chain said its profits fell 69 percent in the first fiscal quarter.
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Coffee chain to lay off Edward Jones analyst Jack
Russo said the cuts make sense
thousands of workers
given the decline in Starbucks’ sales
after huge sales drop in recent quarters.
“This is going to be a transi-
(cid:61)(cid:52)(cid:70)(cid:15)(cid:72)(cid:62)(cid:65)(cid:58)(cid:15)(cid:107) Starbucks Corp. tion year,” Russo said. He said the
announced a new round of store company will have to “claw their
closures and layoffs as it reported way back.”
Wednesday that its profit dropped Wall Street had largely expected
69 percent in its fiscal first quarter Starbucks to report dismal perfor-
with sales continuing to slide. mance for the quarter, because it
The company plans to close had warned last month that slow
300 underperforming stores around sales likely would cause it to miss
the world by the end of the fiscal analysts’ estimates.
year in addition to the 600 it already The company said it plans to
Get planned to close in the U.S. The open only 140 new stores in the
company has already closed 384 U.S. in fiscal 2009, down from its
of those stores. previous target of 200. Overseas, it
The additional closures could will open 170, down from the 270
result in the loss of 6,000 in-store it had planned to open.
jobs. Starbucks also plans to lay off The company also said it will
about 700 non-store employees. not provide any sales or earnings
The cuts and changes will result guidance “given the uncertainty in
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(cid:63)(cid:56)(cid:67)(cid:67)(cid:66)(cid:49)(cid:68)(cid:65)(cid:54)(cid:55)(cid:15)(cid:107) Boeing Co., the world’s The news comes on top of wan-
second-largest airplane maker, ing demand for the company’s com-
swung to a surprise fourth-quarter mercial jets. The planned job cuts
loss, hurt by a labor strike that dis- will total more than 6 percent of
rupted deliveries. It also announced Boeing’s work force and will occur
A publication ofGHI job cuts totaling 10,000 and fore- through attrition, retirements,
cast lower-than-expected 2009 reduction in some contract labor
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