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10.   Bank of England reduces its benchmark loan rate to 1.5%-- lowest =
since its founding in 1694.   Meanwhile UK manufacturing output declined =
2.9% in November 2008; worst decline since the glory/gory days of =
Thatcher, in 1985. =20

11.  US businesses organize to oppose legislation to allow union =
representation upon obtaining "A" card signatures of majority of =
employees-- thus reducing the time frame during which companies can fire =
pro-union workers, etc.   Says Mark McKinnon, former media advisor to =
McCain an Bush presidential campaigns-- "Businesses are ready to riot in =
the street about it." =20

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