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Obama targets tax loopholes
President wants overseas profit taxes raised
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER proposal in 1961. ideas have been around though no tax increases
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Obama’s proposal to for years. would go into effect until
WASHINGTON — close tax loopholes was a The president’s plan 2011. That’s an average of
President Barack Obama reliable applause line would limit the ability of $21 billion a year, less than
promised sternly on during the presidential U.S. companies to defer a 2 percent nick in a federal
Monday to crack down on campaign, but it got a paying U.S. taxes on budget deficit that is
companies “that ship jobs lukewarm response overseas profits. At the projected to hit $1.2 trillion
overseas” and duck U.S. Monday from Capitol Hill. same time, Obama would in 2010.
taxes with offshore havens. Sen. Max Baucus of step up efforts to go after Lost revenue isn’t the
It won’t be easy. Montana, the Democratic evaders who abuse only problem, Obama
Democrats have been chairman of the Senate offshore tax shelters. says. He contends the
AP PHOTO
fighting — and losing — Finance Committee, said Obama said his plan current system gives
this battle since John F. the plan needed further would raise $210 billion President Barack Obama speaks about tax reform in the
Kennedy made a similar study, even though similar over the next 10 years, LOOPHOLES | P4 Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Monday.
Florida
flu cases
now at 5
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TALLAHASSEE — The state now has
five confirmed cases and 15 probable
cases of swine flu.
A report Monday that alleged
Charlotte County had its first swine flu
case was incorrect.
“Right now we’re still in surveillance
mode, but we still have no cases here
in Charlotte County,” county health
department spokesman Adam DuBois
said.
The report was issued by the
Florida Department of Health commu-
nications office. By Monday afternoon,
the statement was recalled.
“Charlotte County does not have a
probable or confirmed case of H1N1
Swine Flu,” Susan Smith, press secre-
tary with the Florida Department of
Health, wrote in an e-mail.
A few test samples were sent to the PHOTO PROVIDED
state to test for the presence of swine Charlotte High School graduates of 2008 celebrate at their project graduation event last May.
flu. DuBois said the lab reported that
there were no signs of the virus.
The Florida Department of Health
said Monday that a 7-year-old boy is
Project Graduation parties — free of drugs, alcohol —
the second confirmed Lee County case
and a 24-year-old man in Pinellas
County also has the flu. The depart-
mapped out for several area high schools
ment previously announced cases in By PAMELA STAIK anybody out in the woods drinking
STAFF WRITER and partying. We want them to be in a
CASES | P4 During the last week of May, hun- secure environment, hanging out one
dreds of local high school seniors will last time as an organized group of
move their graduation tassels from the classmates.”
New data right to left, thus entering the next
phase of their young lives.
Regardless of what students plan to
In general, each project graduation is
based on the premise of offering lots of
food, fun and safety for free.
raises hopes do in their future, parents have vowed
to make sure every single graduate
lives to see their goals come true.
Traditionally, parents keep as much
as possible about the event a secret
until the very last moment.
of easing To accomplish this goal, parents
from traditional area high schools are
hosting drug and alcohol free lock-in
But that isn’t so important to Char-
lotte High parents.
Just ask event chair Debbie
recession parties called Project Graduation.
“These are safe events and celebra-
tions meant for everyone in the
Llewellyn.
“We want to get the kids excited
about it,” she said, adding that posters
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER graduating class,” explained Lemon appeared around campus before
AP ECONOMICS WRITER Bay High’s Project Graduation chair Disney’s Grad Nite announcing the
WASHINGTON — Evidence that Dave Dignam. “We don’t want event’s theme: 2009 Wii R Tarpon PHOTO PROVIDED
housing is poised to improve and Heroes. Lemon Bay High School graduates took
optimism about the results of banking Naturally, this theme will incorporate turns riding a mechanical bull last year
“stress tests” raised hopes Monday that technological trends with the students, during their project graduation celebration.
the recession is easing and helped lift a such as sending text messages and
key stock market measure into the playing video games on Wii, a popular Englewood, the big giveaways will be
black for the year. gaming device. two $1,500 scholarships to a secret, but
Construction spending and pending At project graduation, seniors will be local, educational facility.
home sales both fared better than able to play Guitar Hero, Rock Band While food and prizes are usually
expected in March, and private and Wii Fit games, in addition to the donated by local businesses or individ-
economists saw the reports as further regular activities. Llewellyn said this uals, committee members of the
evidence that the overall economy is includes a casino gaming area, a project graduation events spend most
stabilizing after its bleakest stretch in a jousting activity, an inflatable obstacle of the school year holding fundraisers
half-century. If so, the economy might course, caricature and temporary to pay for the fiestas and additional gift
be able to mount a recovery in the tattoo artists, a money machine and a items.
second half of 2009. prize tent containing items for seniors To make this happen, Lemon Bay
Wall Street took the same view. All to pick from. parents held bucket brigades around
the major stock indexes jumped more Of course, all three graduation events Englewood and sold Christmas trees.
than 2 percent. The Standard & Poor’s will incorporate door prizes and gift Including savings for next year’s
500 rose 3.39 percent, showing a gain PHOTO PROVIDED giveaways, including household items event, Dignam said Englewood parents
for 2009. Gifts are displayed in a tent at last year’s such as bedding and towels, electronic hope to collect between $15,000 and
project graduation for Charlotte High devices including laptops, not to
HOPES | P4 School. mention gift certificates and cash. In GRADUATION | P4
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| WORLD
S. Korean ship Mexico calms as fears of flu rebound rise
thwarts piracy MEXICO CITY (AP) — guarantee that our now that the virus is
Mexico announced a educational institutions taking off in the U.S.,
NAIROBI, Kenya —
return to “normalcy” on are in adequate hygienic chances of severe cases
South Korean snipers
Monday, preparing to condition,” promised could rise as well.
hovering in a heli-
reopen businesses and Calderon, who called on “We’ve seen in many of
copter Monday chased
schools even as the virus parents to join educators the cases in Mexico,
away pirates pursuing
sickened more than 1,200 in a “collective” cleansing 'I there’s been sometimes
a North Korean
people in 20 countries. and inspection of schools five to seven days of
freighter, a rare
World health officials nationwide. being mildly ill with
instance of recent 1
said the global epidemic “This is about going increasing respiratory
cooperation between
is still in its early stages, back to normalcy but distress and then being
the two Koreas.
and that a pandemic with everyone taking hospitalized, and then
The South Korean
could be declared in the better care,” Calderon spending five days or a
ship has been oper-
days to come. But said. week in hospital, so that’s
ating off Somalia since
Mexico’s president said it But experts inside a timeline of two weeks,”
last month on a
was waning at its Mexico’s swine flu crisis AP PHOTO he said.
mission to protect its
epicenter, justifying center warned that the A couple wearing masks as a precaution against swine flu As of Monday, Mexico
cargo ships from
Wednesday’s end to a virus remains active walks past closed stores in Mexico City, Monday. Mexican had 727 confirmed cases,
Somali pirates, whose
five-day nationwide throughout Mexico and officials lowered their flu alert level in the capital on and U.S. case grew to at
acts of high-seas crime
shutdown he credits for could bounce back once Monday, and plan to allow cafes, museums and libraries least 300 in 36 states.
have exploded in
reducing the spread of millions return to work to reopen this week, while world health officials weighed Globally, the virus has
recent years as the
the new virus. and school. It also may raising their pandemic alert to the highest level. reached more than 1,276
bandits continue to get
Already, streets in the get worse north of the people in 20 countries —
ransoms in the millions
capital seemed more border. reopened Monday after a the epidemic. But other still in its early stages, to
of dollars.
lively, with more vehicles “The bottom line is that spring break trip to experts said the known the World Health
South Korea’s Joint
and fewer people wearing there hasn’t been time for Mexico led to as many as cases are almost certainly Organization.
Chiefs of Staff said in a
face masks. Some cafes the severe illnesses to 1,000 people being only a fraction of what’s The WHO was studying
statement that the
even reopened ahead of perhaps show up in the sickened. out there, meaning more whether to raise the
4,500-ton-class
time. President Felipe U.S. yet,” Marc-Alain “We are by no means illnesses could surface pandemic alert to 6, its
warship sent a Lynx
Calderon said universities Widdowson, a medical out of the woods,” said once crowds gather again highest level, which
helicopter to assist the
and high schools will epidemiologist from the Dr. Richard Besser, acting in Mexico. would mean a global
North Korean vessel
reopen on Thursday, and U.S. Centers for Disease director of the CDC. “It’s clear that it’s just outbreak has begun.
shortly after receiving a
younger schoolchildren Control and Prevention, Health Secretary Jose about everywhere in WHO uses the term
distress call that it was
should report back to told The Associated Press. Cordova insisted that Mexico. I think now there pandemic to refer to
being chased by the
school on May 11. Experts in the U.S. also swine flu infections are is considerable person- geographic spread rather
pirate ship.
“The school schedule urged caution, even as a trending downward after to-person transmission,” than severity. Pandemics
will resume with the New York City school 27 deaths at the center of Widdowson said. And aren’t necessarily deadly.
Pig slaughter
ires Christians
CAIRO — The
Egyptian government is Iraq insists on US Supreme Court
leaving cities by June 30 rules for immigrant
using swine flu as an
excuse to get rid of tens
of thousands of pigs
raised by garbage
collectors who live
amid the refuse in Cairo
BAGHDAD (AP) —
Iraq’s government 1G r
in ID theft case
slums. But the move Monday ruled out WASHINGTON (AP) — numbers belong to
has prompted accusa- allowing U.S. combat A unanimous Supreme someone else, regardless
tions Monday that troops to remain in Iraqi Court said Monday that of whether the defendant
Muslims are attacking cities after the June 30 undocumented workers knew it.
minority Christians, deadline for their with- who use phony IDs can’t Breyer said intent is
who breed the animals. drawal, despite concern be considered identity often easy to prove in
The government last that Iraqi forces cannot thieves without proof what he called classic
week ordered the cope with the security they knew they were identity theft. “Where a
slaughter of all the challenge following a stealing real people’s defendant has used
country’s 300,000 pigs resurgence of bombings Social Security and other another person’s infor-
as a precaution against in recent weeks. numbers. mation to get access to
swine flu, even though Asking U.S. forces to The court’s decision that person’s bank
no cases have been stay in the cities, limits federal authorities’ account, the government
reported in the including volatile Mosul use of a 2004 law, can prove knowledge
country. But after the in the north, would be AP FILE PHOTO intended to get tough on with little difficulty,”
World Health embarrassing for Iraq’s identity thieves, against Breyer said.
prime minister, who has In this March 13 file photo, Iraqi Army soldiers look at a immigrants who are But immigrants
Organization criticized book of Arabic phrases as U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert
the measure as entirely staked his political picked up in workplace without proper docu-
future on claims that the Williams, 37, assigned to Delta Co., 1st Combined Arms raids and found to be mentation need identity
unnecessary, the Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, looks for help in
government expanded country has turned the using false Social Security documents and often
corner in the war communicating in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of and alien registration buy them from forgers,
the rationale for the Baghdad, Iraq.
slaughter to confront a against Sunni and Shiite numbers. never knowing if they
long-standing hygienic extremists. with Pentagon violence had not risen to Advocates for immi- belong to anyone.
problem posed by pigs The departure of spokesman Bryan a level that would force a grants had complained Such was the case with
and garbage dumps in heavily armed combat Whitman saying it’s up to change in the withdrawal that federal authorities the undocumented
the midst of densely troops from bases inside the Iraqi government to schedule. used the threat of worker on the winning
populated areas of the the cities is important request an extension of Last month, however, prosecution on the side Monday. Ignacio
capital. psychologically to many the U.S. presence in the the top U.S. commander identity theft charge, Carlos Flores-Figueroa, a
Iraqis, who are eager to cities and “we intend to in Iraq, Gen. Raymond which carries a two-year Mexican immigrant
Jailed journalist regain control of their fully abide by” terms of Odierno, said he was mandatory prison term, employed at a steel plant
country after six years of the security agreement. worried that Iraqi forces to win guilty pleas on in East Moline, Ill.,
hospitalized war and U.S. military The chairman of the won’t be ready to assume lesser charges and traveled to Chicago and
CAIRO — The occupation. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. full responsibility for acceptance of prompt bought numbers from
American journalist on U.S. officials played Mike Mullen, told Mosul by the end of deportation. someone who trades in
a hunger strike for two down the Iraqi decision, reporters Monday that June. “These prosecutions counterfeit IDs.
weeks to protest her have been taken off the Unlike earlier fictitious
table,” said Nina Perales, numbers Flores-Figueroa
Program enlists doctors
imprison-
ment in southwest regional used, these numbers
Iran was counsel for the Mexican belonged to real people.
to help stem tide of addiction
briefly American Legal Defense Flores-Figueroa had
hospital- t and Education Fund. worked at the plant
ized after The court, in an under a false name for six
she opinion by Justice years. His decision to use
WASHINGTON (AP) — workers past the stigma Someone else insists Stephen Breyer, rejected his real name and
intensified If more doctors started and ensure that more she’s a social drinker? If
her fast by SABERI the government’s exchange one set of
asking, would more drug patients are asked for she’s ever had four or argument that prosecu- phony numbers for
refusing to and alcohol abusers ’fess simple clues to addiction more drinks in a day, she
drink water, Reporters tors need only show that another aroused his
up so they could get help? at every visit — not just in may have a bigger the identification employer’s suspicions.
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Empty neighborhoods fester in Rust Belt
By DAN SEWELL and to do just that — buy and certain areas like Cincin- tide, buying and either
FRANK BASS either rehabilitate or nati’s Over-the-Rhine rehabilitating or bulldoz-
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS demolish foreclosed and neighborhood, roughly ing empty homes. Even
CINCINNATI — Meet abandoned homes. two of every three homes with billions of federal
the forgotten housing The AP’s analysis, are vacant or used by dollars pouring into
crisis. however, shows the squatters. The area is cities, civic leaders such
While most attention money will only make a more than 70 percent as Steve Leeper, director
has focused on the wave modest dent in the black and poor, with of a Cincinnati develop-
of foreclosures sweeping problem. As of March 31, unemployment often ment group, say fixing
mostly middle-class, there were about 4 around 50 percent. lead paint, asbestos,
suburban Sunbelt neigh- million homes that have Things may be even decay and other prob-
borhoods from California been empty for 90 days — worse in Flint, Mich. lems takes a long time.
to Florida, the nation’s a slight increase over last Jeffrey Taylor, 51, moved Leeper said there are
emptiest neighborhoods AP PHOTO year’s figures and about 3 to a vanishing neighbor- plans to offer more
have remained concen- percent of all U.S. homes. hood in the late 1960s, affordable housing and
trated in the same place A woman, talking on a cell phone, walks past an The federal money will when his father worked more rental units, in
for nearly a generation: abandoned home in east Buffalo, N.Y., Friday. be distributed based on a for General Motors. At its phased development
the mostly minority, poor, of the 1980s — cities such many as 10,000 vacant, complicated formula that peak, the factories meant to make sure there
urban neighborhoods of as Flint, Mich.; Colum- abandoned homes. considers local rates for employed thousands. aren’t pockets of empty
the American Rust Belt. bus, Ohio; Buffalo, N.Y.; Suburban sprawl, an foreclosures, high-cost Now, all but one of the 20 housing left in the made-
An analysis by The and Indianapolis. aging population and mortgages and vacancies. factories and buildings in over neighborhood.
Associated Press, based “I’d move in a heart- manufacturing losses There won’t be enough the industrial valley have “When you don’t have
on data collected by the beat if I had somewhere to have left the city with a money to completely fix been closed and torn an area populated,” he
U.S. Postal Service and go right now,” said Cindy population under 300,000 places such as the neigh- down, driving residents said, “it doesn’t have a
the Housing and Urban Olejniczak of Buffalo. — about half what it was borhood in western from his neighborhoods. heart.”
Development Depart- Roughly every third home during the 1950s. Columbus that is the City officials are thinking
ment, shows the emptiest in her neighborhood is Federal lawmakers nation’s emptiest. About 70 about bulldozing large ALMANAC
neighborhoods are vacant. Not even pizzerias have designated nearly percent of the neighbor- swaths of the city.
clustered in places hit will deliver to the area. $6 billion over the past hood’s housing is empty. Cities across the region Today is Tuesday, May 5,
hard during the recession In Buffalo, there are as year for local governments In some sections of are trying to reverse the the 125th day of 2009.
There are 240 days left in
the year.
GRADUATION: High schools plan drug-, alcohol-free parties Today in history
FROM PAGE 1 North Port High Graduation, and $12,000 On May 5, 1961,
School’s Project Gradua- remained for this year’s astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr.
$25,000 before the event tion will begin following project. became America’s first space
on May 29. commencement ceremo- “One thing we’d like to traveler as he made a 15-
That could be difficult ny May 30, and continues emphasize,” Bickett said. minute suborbital flight in a
because of the economic until 5 a.m. May 31. The “The party is not a lock capsule launched from Cape
downturn. graduates are bused from in. Students can leave, Canaveral, Fla.
“We have felt the pinch NPHS to the South but they can’t come back
in our collections,” County YMCA in Venice in and they forfeit their On this date
Dignam admitted. after the ceremony for a prizes (if they leave).”
They aren’t the only celebration that includes Bickett said there are In 1821, Napoleon
ones, said Yvette Johnson, a DJ, dancing, games with two more Project Grad Bonaparte, 51, died in exile
Port Charlotte High’s prizes, “splash for cash” fundraisers scheduled — on the island of St. Helena.
event chair. in the YMCA pool, a May 13 at Beef O’ Brady’s In 1891, Carnegie Hall
Although the group has hypnotist, swimming, from 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. and (then named “Music Hall”)
u - i
set a goal of raising food and raffles. May 22-23 at the Basket had its official opening night
approximately $20,000 for In past years, more Peddler Boutique — in New York City.
the party, Johnson said than $10,000 has gone when both businesses RRaaaCT In 1904, Cy Young pitched
only $6,500 has been into the event. Much of will donate a portion of GRA Q UATI
the American League’s first
collected with another the money comes from their receipts to the perfect game as the Boston
$2,500 promised. fundraising and cash, gift project. Americans defeated the
“We’ve been hit really certificate and prize Project graduation Philadelphia Athletics 3-0.
hard,” she said. “Even the donations. committees are still In 1981, Irish Republican
businesses that have DeSoto County High looking for help. For more PHOTO PROVIDED BY DALLAS EMRICH Army hunger-striker Bobby
always donated to the School has raked in information on how you Sands died at the Maze
cause are donating almost $25,000 to date for can donate or volunteer North Port City Commissioner Vanessa Carusone, left, who
Prison in Northern Ireland in
maybe a quarter of what its Project Graduation — your time, contact: has a daughter graduating from North Port High School
his 66th day without food.
they’ve normally donated thanks to a boost from • Charlotte High this year, helped collect money for prizes for Project
Graduation recently in front of the North Port Walmart. In 2000, the tightest
because they’ve been money left over from last School: Call or e-mail alignment in 38 years of
hurting.” year’s inaugural event. event chair Debbie • Port Charlotte High or visit the Web site Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter,
Considering a slow “We’re doing real well,” Llewellyn at 941-456-1212 School: Call event chair www.sarasotaschools. Saturn, the sun and the
start, Charlotte High is said DeSoto County’s or llewellyn36@ Yvette Johnson at 941- com/nphsprojectgrad. moon — as seen from Earth
doing fairly well. Project Graduation comcast.net. 889-8897. You can also • DeSoto High — took place.
With the help of Chairwoman Leslie • Lemon Bay High contact Debbie Capo at School: Leslie Bickett
members of the Rotary Bickett. “We take dona- School: Call or e-mail the school by calling (teacher at DeSoto Today’s
Club of Harbor tions year around. People event chair Dave Dignam 941-255-7485. Middle School) cell
Heights/Peace River, can donate cash, prizes at 941-460-1208 or • North Port High number: 863-990-5601 birthdays
parents have been able to or food.” projgradlbhs@yahoo.com. School: Call Janice Staff writer John Actress Pat Carroll is 82.
raise approximately The 2008 event was You can also contact Redenbo, at 941-423- Lawhorne contributed to AFL-CIO president John J.
$16,000 of their $20,000 DeSoto County High Beth Johnston at 941- 8558, ext. 66012, or Nancy this article. Sweeney is 75. Actor Michael
goal. School’s first Project 474-3864. DeCarlo at 941-426-7757, E-mail: pstaik@sun-herald.com Murphy is 71. Comedian-actor
Michael Palin is 66.Rock
LOOPHOLES: Obama plans to raise overseas profit taxes
correspondent Kurt Loder is
64. NBC News anchor Brian
Williams is 50. Actress Tina
FROM PAGE 1 where they generate wealthy individuals evade impose billions of dollars make permanent a Yothers is 36. Singer Craig
profits. taxes in overseas in new taxes on many of research tax credit that David is 28. Actress Danielle
companies an incentive The bottom line? accounts. Obama said the the nation’s largest would provide firms Fishel is 28. R&B singer Chris
to invest overseas rather “Nobody should miss government is hiring corporations, including about $75 billion in Brown is 20.
than creating jobs in the the fact that this is about nearly 800 new IRS agents Google, General Electric, breaks over the next 10
U.S. revenue,” said Raymond to enforce the tax code. Hewlett-Packard, Intel years. The credit currently
“It’s a tax code that says Wiacek, head of the tax “I want to see our and Johnson & Johnson, is to expire at the end of NEWS OF
you should pay lower practice at the law firm companies remain the tax experts said. But it the year. THE WEIRD
taxes if you create a job in Jones Day. “These most competitive in the falls well short of the Obama has widespread
Revolutionized
Bangalore, India, than if companies have the world,” Obama said at a broad overhaul of the tax support in Congress to
you create one in Buffalo, money, and the U.S. White House announce- system that will probably crack down on tax parenting
N.Y.,” Obama said government needs the ment. “But the way to have to wait until at least evaders who illegally hide “Consensual Living”
Monday. money.” make sure that happens next year — after Con- assets in tax havens. But parenting, which was
The business commu- Obama also proposed a is not to reward our gress deals with health he faces stiff opposition developed in 2006 and now
nity argues the deferral package of disclosure and companies for moving care and energy. — even within his own has many hundreds of
system helps them enforcement measures jobs off our shores or In exchange for the party — to increasing followers, supposes that
compete against foreign designed to make it transferring profits to increased taxes some taxes on the legal transac- every family member’s needs
companies that pay taxes harder for financial overseas tax havens.” companies would have to tions of U.S. multination- are equally valid and
only in the countries institutions to help Obama’s plan would pay, Obama agreed to al companies. respectworthy. Even pre-
adolescents are assumed
CASES: Flu HOPES: New data points to easing recession
able to understand their own
needs and respect those of
others. When little Kiernen,
numbers FROM PAGE 1
Bolstering that picture
future loan losses, the
government will supply
the needed resources,
after the index hit a
record low in January.
The pending sales index
which are causing more
banks to tighten lending
standards.
3, of Langley, British
Columbia, hits another child,
his mom told Toronto’s Globe
jump to 5 were rising expectations
that the government-run
stress tests, showing how
Bernanke has said.
The Fed chairman is
scheduled to testify to
is now 1.1 percent above
last year’s levels.
Typically, there’s a one-
The Fed reported
Monday that about 50
percent of U.S. banks had
& Mail in March, she does
not invoke authority but
instead asks about his
FROM PAGE 1 the nation’s 19 largest Congress on Tuesday to two-month lag tightened their lending feelings and whether he’d
banks would fare in a about the state of the between a contract being standards on prime like to express himself
Lee, Broward and Orange severe recession, have economy. signed and a final deal mortgages and that 65
differently. If Kahlan, 18
counties. found most of them in The Commerce being sealed. So the percent had tightened
standards on nontradi- months old, of Nanaimo,
The department also reasonably good shape. Department reported index is a good barome-
The test results are that construction ter for future home sales. tional mortgages. Both British Columbia, is grumpy
said there are five at a time when her mother
probable cases in expected to be released spending rose 0.3 Economists saw both percentages were higher
Thursday after markets percent in March. It was reports as good news. than in the last survey in has made plans, Mom says
Hillsborough County, she is obligated to consider
close. the first increase after “Things certainly look early February.
three probable cases in Many builders also are other plans. And when
Federal Reserve five straight months of a bit less bad than in the
Miami-Dade County, two finding it harder to get Savannah, 6, insisted on
Chairman Ben declines. And it was far dark days at the turn of
in Palm Beach County Bernanke has said none better than the the year,” Ian Shepherd- lending for their projects wearing her Halloween cat
and one each in Alachua, of the 19 banks will be 1.5 percent drop analysts son, chief U.S. economist because of rising defaults costume every single day for
Lee, Indian River, allowed to fail and that had expected. at High Frequency on commercial real estate. several months, her mom in
Okeechobee and Clay any institution that Meanwhile, the Economics, wrote in a Because of such Burlington, Ontario, just
counties. needs to raise more National Association of research note. problems, the overall shrugged, since she recalled
Meanwhile, some capital will be given six Realtors said its index of Some analysts cau- economy, as measured how contentious the morning
Florida schools are months to do so. pending home sales rose tioned that the economy by the gross domestic dressing rituals were, pre-
closed while health If the bank cannot 3.2 percent to 84.6 in still faces threats from product, is expected to Consensual Living.
officials monitor the raise the needed capital March. That was the waves of layoffs and keep shrinking in the
cases. as a cushion against second monthly increase rising mortgage defaults, current quarter. — From wire reports

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