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- Web radio broadcasts 'sound of silence' in rate-hike protest
- LOS ANGELES AFP — US Internet radio listeners will tune in to the sound of silence on Tuesday as webcasters protest a sharp rise in royalty fees that critics say will force thousands of online stations to close. The SaveNetRadio Coalition said thousands of web-based broadcasters would participate in...
- Research articles 2007-06-25
- Regulators told to consider rate shock
- POSTAL RATES The US Postal Service board of governors told the Postal Regulatory Commission PRC to think again about the rate hike it wants for Standard Mail flats catalogs and said it had only approved that part of the commission's proposal under protest. Rejecting the rates outright would...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- General outlook.
- INTEREST RATES: While the Fed has left the door open for a tighter monetary policy, economists and financial traders widely expect short-term interest rates to remain at 5.25% following the Jan. 30-31 Federal Open Market Committee FOMC meeting. Traders are so certain no...
- Research articles 2007-01-27
- General outlook.(Analysis)
- INTEREST RATES: As anticipated, the Fed raised short-term interest rates one-quarter point Dec. 13 to 4.25%. With the rate hike a foregone conclusion, focus was on the statement accompanying the announcement. Instead of noting "policy accommodation can be removed at a pace that...
- Research articles 2005-12-17
- Postage to go up 5.4%, or maybe not.
- Nonprofits are facing a 5.4 increase in postage rate for 2006. But, before canceling mailings and reworking budgets, Congress might provide some relief. The United States Postal Service USPS has filed with the Postal Rate Commission for an across-the-board 5.4 percent hike that would...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Investors unsure about strategy as rate hike looms
- NEW YORK -- The Fed says a hike in short-term rates is coming. But when? Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan acknowledged last week what most investors have long suspected: The central bank will have to boost interest rates at some point to cool the suddenly hot economy. But...
- Research articles 2004-04-26
- Long Island-based bulk-mail companies rally against pending 10%
- Long Island-based bulk-mail companies are trying to stamp out a pending postal-rate hike of 10 percent or more, which would be used to cover new expenses imposed on the U.S. Postal Service. The federal government recently shifted $27 billion in military pensions to the USPS - a burden...
- Research articles 2004-04-09
- BRIEFLY
- Byline: The Register-Guard 'Haunted Hike' set for Friday Nearby Nature will hold its seventh annual "Haunted Hike" Friday at Eugene's Alton Baker Park. Nature guides will lead a series of 45-minute hikes along festive pumpkin-lit paths through the nearby woods. Along the...
- Research articles 2003-10-23
- Should congress give itself a pay raise?
- The House voted 240-173 on September 4 see HUMAN EVENTS rollcall last week against holding a direct up-or-down vote on a congressional pay raise, letting stand a law that will boost by 2.2% the 2004 wages of representatives and senators.If that stands, members will be paid $158,000 in 2004. That's...
- Research articles 2003-09-22
- West Virginia Homeowners Brace for Big Increase in Insurance Premiums.
- By Martyn Chase, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 4--Many West Virginia homeowners can expect to pay a whopping 20 percent more for homeowners insurance this year. That's the average of increases already granted by the state ...
- Research articles 2003-04-04
- River Market departures haven't created panic
- THE BACK-TO-BACK CLOSINGS of Take A Hike and Vesta's Unique Gifts and Home Furnishings in Little. Rock's River Market District haven't set off alarm bells with neighboring business owners. Owners in the area said the closings are just part of the natural growth of the blocks along President Clinton...
- Research articles 2003-01-27
- Senate refuses direct vote on pay hike
- On November 13, by a vote of 58 to 36, the Senate tabled killed and thus refused to vote directly on an amendment to the Homeland Security Act (HR 5005) sponsored by Sen. Russ Feingold (D.-Wis.) that would have prevented members of Congress from receiving an automatic cost of living...
- Research articles 2002-12-02
- JAPAN & AUSTRALIA MAKE HISTORICAL STEAMING COAL PRICE SETTLEMENT.
- BRISBANE, May 9 Asia Pulse - For the first time in the history of annual Australia/Japan coal contract negotiations, prices for steaming coal has been settled before hard coking coal. Analysts say the powerful Japanese steel mills, led by the influential Nippon Steel, are dragging the chain and...
- Research articles 2002-05-09
- Airline Industry's First Real Try to Raise Fares Fails.
- By Dan Reed, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 16--Though the nation's airlines likely lost more than $2 billion in the first quarter alone, the industry's first real attempt to raise fares this year failed. Carriers that implemented...
- Research articles 2002-04-16
- Inflation Spurt Only Temporary.
- Byline:Jerome Idaszak A drive past any local gas station is all it takes to know that gasoline prices are up sharply this year. And it's not just fuel prices that are climbing. Companies are seeing a run-up in what they're paying for other commodities,...
- Research articles 2002-04-12
- Bush's plan for defense.
- Bush won't let Congress gut missile defense effort to shift funds to other programs. He'll dig in and get enough Democrats to go along. All told, it means about $370 billion for the Pentagon next year, a nearly 10% hike and most of...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- Editor's note
- We spend about 14 cents a copy to get each issue of NEA Today into the hands of NEA's 2.6 million members eight times a year, so we pay a lot of attention to what's going on with the U.S. Postal Service USPS. Our mailing costs could go up considerably...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- Publishers steel for possible early Postal Hike
- These days, bad news is relative. Publishers, who only a few months ago were vowing to fight to decrease and delay a proposed 10-percent postal rate hike, may now be lucky to get the same hike four months early. Moreover, it's now a virtual given that the Postal Service will...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Postal rate hikes: Lobby now or pay later.(Brief Article)
- In my first three attempts at reaching the U.S. Postal Service press office for comment on its Board of Governors' recent rate hike, I was passed on by a bored-sounding receptionist to a line that rang perhaps a dozen times-with no answer. My fourth try got me...
- Research articles 2001-05-28
- Hindsight - May 1949: Rate redux.(Brief Article)
- Like death and taxes, complaints from business publishers and direct marketers about U.S. Postal Service rate hikes are inevitable. In our May 14 issue, we wrote that leaders from both industries believe the coming 1.6% average increase-2.6% for periodicals- could prove a "serious blow." Here is...
- Research articles 2001-05-28
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