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On Friday's NewsHour: President Obama and congressional leaders meet in a last-ditch effort to avoid the fiscal cliff A gang rape sparks outrage and protests in India A move to mass produce high quality schools The legacy of "Stormin' Norman" Gulf War Gen. Schwarzkopf Plus, Shields and Brooks ...
... tea party protests and rallies and past congressional campaigns. ... MARGARET WARNER: We return to our series of different voices and viewpoints on the nation's fiscal cliff debate. Tea party activists took aim at government spending three years ago, with protests and rallies in Washington and elsewhere. The national group ...
... HOLMAN: Wall Street was down much of the day, but trimmed its losses after news that the House will convene Sunday to focus on the fiscal cliff. In the end, the Dow Jones industrial average shed 18 points to close at 13,096. The Nasdaq fell four points to close ...
... plenty of tit-for-tat charges, but no agreement in sight, that, in short, summed up the state of affairs in Washington today as the fiscal cliff deadline loomed, Jan. 1. It would mean more than $600 billion in across-the-board tax increases and automatic spending cuts. SEN. HARRY ...
... well, telling me -- and I think investors collectively tend to get this right -- telling me that we're probably not going to go off the fiscal cliff or, if we do go off the fiscal cliff, it will be a small package of some tax increases, some spending cuts, but ...
... on March 3, 1913. As we plunge into 2013, with the suffrage movement far behind us, the issues that now generate debate include the looming "fiscal cliff" and gun control in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn. In this slide show, you can see ...
... audience on inflation, on the Greek debt crisis, on the euro crisis in general, on too-big-to-fail banks, and most recently, on the fiscal cliff. No, Shayne/Hazard is no one-trick pony. He is also a noted money manager, recently highlighted by Forbes magazine for his perspicacity ...
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