current events 3
10-14-08
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- intrest rates
- short term rates drop to 1.5%/ lowest in 4 years
- volunteer time
- normally 27.2%/ untah0 47%, nevada- 17.7, Ga- less than 27%
- global meeting
- G-20 (global 20) holds meeting on financial crisis on saturday/ produce 90% of economic output
- clemson
- tommy bousden steps aside as football coach
- Joey Chestnut
- world pizza eating champ/ 45 slices in 10 minutes
- NBA
- goes outside for saturdays exhibition game/ denver nuggets vs. pheonix suns at Indian Wells Tennis Center/ 10 p.m on TNT
- u.s retirement fund
- 2 trillion wiped out/ 20%
- missouri
- counties build undergroud tornado shelters which hold about 1,000 people/ FEMA pays 75%
- Mickey Spillane
- 20th century best selling american mystery writer sales top 225 million of mike Hammer series
- house of reps
- 33 challengers that lost in '06 try again- 435 total
- seve ballesteros
- 5 time major winner in gold has brain tumor
- GM
- worlds laragest auto maker stock drops to 4.76 billion/ now valued at 2.7 billion/ in 2000- 52 billion
- dmitry medvedev
- russian president calls for new transatlantic organization to rivel NATO- north atlantic treaty organization
- MLB
- down to 4/ N.L- phillies vs. L.A...A.L- tampa bay vs boston
- GA gas stations
- now face fines after inflating prices after hurricanes
- europe
- 15 countries agree to use public funds to replinish banks funds
- L.A
- santa ana winds add up to 100s of fleeing wildfires over 10,000 acres/ 2 killed
- richard garriot
- texas computer game designer reaches space by Russian Soyuz TMA-13/ payed 30 milllion to do so
- admiral michael mullen
- chariman of joint cheirs wants all returning combat troops to hace PTSD (post traumatic stress disoorder) screeing
- texas
- red river shootout (TX vs. OK) to play for 103rd time
- hofstra university
- to host final debate wednesday/ bob schnieffer is moderator
- Dow Jones gain
- has largest once day point gain at 936
- dow jones loss
- average drops to 8579/ lowest in 5 years/ dropped 2271 in 7 days
- auto dealers
- 700 could go under/ 94% of buyers finance cars through bank
- term limits
- 15 states hace limits for state legislators
- Obama ads
- planes 30 minute ads on CBS,FOX, and NBC on October 29/ 2nd in history- ist- Ross Perot
- U.s drug makers
- agree that children under 4 should not get over the counter meds
- treasury department
- to spend 250 billion in buting stock of banks
- mosul, iraq
- christians flee city as 10th killing occurs in month
- scholastic mag
- students vote Obama with 57%/ been right 15 of 17 elections since 1940/ in 1948 and 1969 were wrong