Still on the Job, but at Half the Pay
Pay cuts are occurring more frequently than at any time since the Great Depression.
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Pay cuts are occurring more frequently than at any time since the Great Depression.
Saudi officials reiterated a call for oil-producing countries to be compensated if rich nations reduce their consumption, in advance of negotiations in December.
Makers of hybrid and electric vehicles are working to let them emit sounds, so people can hear them approaching.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. focused their first debate on each other’s failures.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s pessimism on Afghanistan has caught on with many liberal Democrats.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 14, 2009, covering October 14, 2009.
Barbra Streisand
Paramore
Mariah Carey
Breaking Benjamin
Alice in Chains
2009Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor and screenwriter (born 1938)[†]
Martyn Sanderson was a New Zealand actor, director, producer, writer and poet.
2009Collin Wilcox, American actress (born 1935)[†]
Collin Randall Wilcox was an American film, stage and television actress. Over her career, she was also credited as Collin Wilcox-Horne or Collin Wilcox-Paxton. Wilcox may be best known for her role in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), in which she played Mayella Violet Ewell, whose father falsely claimed she had been raped by a black man, which sparks the trial at the center of the film.

2009Lou Albano, American professional wrestler (born 1933)[†]
Louis Vincent Albano was an Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor, who performed under the ring/stage name "Captain" Lou Albano. He was active as a professional wrestler from 1953 until 1969, before becoming a manager until 1996.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]