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LONG BEACH POLICE SEEK FOUR MEN IN BRUTAL DOWNTOWN ATTACK

October 24, 2008

As the Press-Telegram’s Tracy Manzer reports this morning, Long Beach police are asking the public for help finding four young men “believed responsible” in the savage beating and robbing of a 55-year-old man in downtown Long Beach, in the early morning hours of Sept. 19.
“The attack on the victim was so savage that all the [...]

WORD OF THE DAY: STAGFLATION

January 30, 2008

stag / fla / tion: (n) sluggish economic growth coupled with a high rate of inflation and unemployment.
CNN gives us this happy news, headlined with “Economy much weaker than expected.”
For those who were born before 1980 Investopedia provides a bit of historical context: “[Stagflation is] not a good situation for a country [...]

 

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