Re: Global Economy

1997-12-03 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Richardson_D wrote: Looking to the future, it would seem that the Fed could support the stock market more or less indefinitely this way, almost regardless of what is happening to the U.S. (or even the world) economy. This would be why New York price earnings ratios

Re: Fast Track Down, Not Out/Progressive Populist 12/97

1997-12-03 Thread john gulick
Max, Jim Cullen's response, while I disagree with it, was thoughtful and to the point. Yours, on the other hand, was shameless parodying and misrepresentation of my viewpoint. (I don't mind humorous barbs -- in fact I have enjoyed your frequent humorous barbs -- but now you've entered the

Re: contingency

1997-12-03 Thread Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Doug Henwood wrote: Continuing a discussion from several months ago, the opening of a BLS news release published today. The full text is on the BLS web site at http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/conemp.toc.htm. I welcome discussion as to what it all means. Doug Doug,

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1997-12-03 Thread Richardson_D
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- =_NextPart_000_01BCFFF2.781CE7A0 charset="iso-8859-1" BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1997 RELEASED TODAY: The proportion of U.S.

urgent action nicaragua (fwd)

1997-12-03 Thread Sid Shniad
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Task Force on Central America) Subject: urgent action nicaragua Content-Length: 5138 Dear Friends: We have received some disturbing news from the organisation "Mujeres sin Fronteras" (Women without Borders), and the Comite de Solidaridad Internacional

Re: Fast Track Down, Not Out/Progressive Populist 12/97

1997-12-03 Thread john gulick
At 09:02 AM 12/3/97 -0600, William Lear wrote: Who is "you"? Could you insert the person's name to whom you are responding? It makes following the thread a bit easier. Sorry. This is a shortcoming of my mail application. Not all of the Reform Party positions are compatible with progressive

Re: immanent critique (was: dialectics)

1997-12-03 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Date sent: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:34:24 -0800 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: James Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:immanent critique (was: dialectics) Ricardo writes: ... I would argue there is a difference between the early

Re: More! More!

1997-12-03 Thread Tom Walker
Mies van der Rohe is credited with having said "Less is more." To which one of the pomo upstarts (Micael Graves?) retroted "Less is more is a bore". But who could possibly be more post modern than the architect who designed the 1926 Rosa and Karl Liebknecht Monument and went on, in 1933, to

General strike in Israel! (fwd)

1997-12-03 Thread Sid Shniad
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 2 10:47:18 1997 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 20:28:53 +0200 Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Eric Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: General strike in Israel! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] According to reports this evening,

Re: Fast Track Down, Not Out/Progressive Populist 12/97

1997-12-03 Thread valis
Raged John Gulick: Excuse me, but if the "progressive populist" movement has not enough moral imagination to oppose free trade agreements and the MAI because of the destitution these policies/laws/institutions wreak upon workers and peasants in "developing countries," and instead gets all up

Re: More! More!

1997-12-03 Thread Thomas Kruse
Mies van der Rohe is credited with having said "Less is more." To which one of the pomo upstarts (Micael Graves?) retroted "Less is more is a bore". Tom Kruse / Casilla 5869 / Cochabamba, Bolivia Tel/Fax: (591-42) 48242 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

More! More!

1997-12-03 Thread Tom Walker
Michael Eisenscher wrote, I spent part of the day looking for the entirety of that quote from Gompers, but did not find it. . . Mies van der Rohe is credited with having said "Less is more." Here's a slightly expanded text: "The office building is a house of work . . . of organization, of

Re: FW: LITTLE JESSICA

1997-12-03 Thread Ajit Sinha
At 09:47 1/12/97 -0500, you wrote: I saw a similar message to this one which was subsequently stated to be a fraud. I believe one should verify such messages before circulation and I doubt the authenticity of this one. Paul ___ Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! I had no idea that it was a hoax.

Re: utopias

1997-12-03 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
Date sent: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 12:37:26 -0500 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Robin Hahnel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: utopias Hahnel writes: One great thing about participatory planning is it eliminates the free rider

Re: contingency

1997-12-03 Thread Jim Davis
From the BLS release it looks like contingency means a worker thinks the situation will end w/in a year. The release says the proportion of "alternative work arrangement" workers (contractors, temps, on-call, workers provided by contract agencies) in the tota workforce has remained the same

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1997-12-03 Thread Richardson_D
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- =_NextPart_000_01BCFFF6.E35C83A0 charset="iso-8859-1" Hi - The following is a comment I had for Sam Smith, the editor of the Progressive

Former Soviet Premier Lends Pizza Hut His Image

1997-12-03 Thread john gulick
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY MOSCOW -- The last leader of the Soviet Union was unable to prevent the collapse of communism. So now he has conspicuously taken his place on the winning side. Mikhail Gorbachev, 66, has shot a commercial endorsement for Pizza Hut. Gorbachev agreed to sit down at a

Re: Fast Track Down, Not Out/Progressive Populist 12/97

1997-12-03 Thread J Cullen
At 09:02 AM 12/3/97 -0600, William Lear wrote, responding to John Gulick: Who is "you"? Could you insert the person's name to whom you are responding? It makes following the thread a bit easier. Sorry. This is a shortcoming of my mail application. Not all of the Reform Party positions are

Re: General strike in Israel! (fwd)

1997-12-03 Thread valis
Noting Sid's posting, I checked backed to the General Strike Website Eric Lee had set up in September. To my surprise it was still functioning. Here is an editorial I found in Globes, billed as Israel's foremost online financial sheet. The compassion for labor evident here probably stems from

Re: Fast Track Down, Not Out/Progressive Populist 12/97

1997-12-03 Thread Max B. Sawicky
From: john gulick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max, Jim Cullen's response, while I disagree with it, was thoughtful and to the point. Yours, on the other hand, was shameless parodying and misrepresentation of my viewpoint. (I don't mind humorous barbs -- in fact I A parody is indeed a