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Friends,
This January I will be teaching an economics course in UMass-Amherst's
MA program in Union Leadership and Administation. The students come
from various backgrounds, some are higher-level union or AFL-CI
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing-wax --
Of cabbages -- and kings --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
And whether pigs have wi
That was a red flag to Anderson. Typically savings and loansÜd financed
home construction and sales in their local areas. After 1979, when the
Federal Reserve Board drove interest rates up dramatically, many savings
and loans found themselves having to pay high interest rates to attract
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>From 1981 to July 1984 Hyde was a member of the board of directors of
Clyde Federal Savings and Loan Association of North Riverside. In 1990 the
federal government's Office of Thrift Supervision put the institution into
receivership. Ultimately on May 31, 1991 its assets were transferred to the
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TO: All of you and I sure hope there are many. Enclosed are two files
about Henry Hyde. Not the sex stuff, but the Savings and Loan stuff. Looks
like the entire media world knows and WILL not do anything about it. This
includes: Chicago Tribune, Dalas Morning News, Center for Public Integrity,
(2) WORKING LONG HOURS CAN DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH -
BUT SO CAN WORKING VERY FEW
(Working hours as a risk factor for acute myocardial
infarction in Japan: case-control study)
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/317/7161/775
It is suspected that extremely long working hours increase the
risk of s
Just out in the British Medical Journal:
BMJ 1998;317:767 ( 19 September )
News
Life expectancy falls in Europe
Adrea Mach, Geneva
Laying the blame squarely on "poverty, unemployment, homelessness,
excessive drinking, and smoking" and on health reforms that are too
reliant on "market forces," th