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After a summer of high oil and gas prices, suburb dwellers around New York, and across the country, are going low-tech in hopes of reducing their energy bills this winter.
The campaign drew 500,000 first-time donors, crucial new supporters as the senator forgoes public financing.
Wall Street and the federal government faced off over the weekend, raising worries of a sell-off when markets open on Monday.
A new bill before the City Council would scale back the scope and length of the disclosure forms filed each year by 8,000 public servants.
It’s the end of an era for Merrill Lynch, the brokerage firm that brought Wall Street to Main Street.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 10, 2008, covering September 15, 2008.
Slipknot
The Game
Kid Rock
Jonas Brothers
Soundtrack
2008Richard Wright, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1943)[†]
Richard William Wright was an English keyboardist and songwriter who co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He appeared on almost every Pink Floyd album and performed on all of their tours. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Pink Floyd.
2008Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.[†]
Lehman Brothers Inc. was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States, with about 25,000 employees worldwide. It was doing business in investment banking, equity, fixed-income and derivatives sales and trading, research, investment management, private equity, and private banking. Lehman was operational for 158 years from its founding in 1850 until 2008.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]