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Congressional negotiators have reached a preliminary oral agreement on a long-awaited package of amendments to overhaul the nation’s pension system.
President Bush’s veto put him at odds with many members of his own party and what polls say is a majority of the public.
A 20-year plan relies more on putting waste on barges and trains and less on trucks that carry trash out of state.
Power problems that began in Queens during a heat wave on Monday spread on Wednesday, disrupting commuters and leaving households and businesses there flickering or without power.
Ben S. Bernanke expressed optimism that the central bank’s heavy lifting to fend off inflation may be almost finished.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 19, 2006, covering July 20, 2006.
Johnny Cash
Nelly Furtado
India.Arie
Dixie Chicks
Gnarls Barkley
2006Ted Grant, South African-English theorist and activist (born 1913)[†]
Edward Grant was a South African Trotskyist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He was a founding member of the group Militant and later Socialist Appeal.
2006Gérard Oury, French actor, director, and producer (born 1919)[†]
Gérard Oury was a French film director, actor and writer.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]