Notable historical firsts and key events by year
December 19 1843 Dickens A Christmas Carol published in England. 1777 Washington led about 11 000 to Valley Forge winter camp. 1932 BBC Empire Service begins overseas transmissions to Australia. 1946 Ho Chi Minh launches attacks in Indochina. 1957 Meredith Willson's The Music Man opens on Broadway. 1972 Apollo 17 returns from lunar missions. 1998 Clinton impeached by House for perjury and obstruction of justice.
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George Washington
Valley Forge
British Broadcasting Corporation
Empire
Australia
Indochina
Ho Chi Minh
Meredith Willson
Pacific
Bill Clinton
House
Senate
Oversight chief questions bailout details amid Treasury drift
The congressional watchdog on the $700 billion rescue urged clarity on how taxpayer billions are allocated. Elissa Warren pressed for a plan, amid Democratic claims the administration offered few explanations to the AP. Separately, Iraq’s al Zeidi seeks pardon for throwing shoes at Bush, while a record snowstorm shuts Las Vegas and prompts travel disruption across Nevada and California. In Pennsylvania, authorities report a woman marketed pierced gothic kittens online, with three kittens and a cat removed from a home outside Wilkes-Barre.
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Treasury Department
Harvard Law
Elizabeth Warren
Washington
Treasury
Associated Press
Bush
Warren
Henry Paulson
Paulson
U.S
Brookly McLaughlin
Las Vegas
McCarran International
Nevada
California
Arizona
Cajon Pass
Nevada Line
Humane
Pennsylvania
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Wilkes-Barre
Scranton
Carol Morrison
Ross Township
Morrison
Bush eyes orderly bankruptcy plan for automakers
Washington reports say the Bush administration weighs an orderly bankruptcy as a potential path to aid General Motors Chrysler and other Detroit firms amid plant closings and rising jobless claims while seeking to avoid a full collapse and preserve a viable auto industry for the Obama era.
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Washington
Bush
U.S
Treasury
Henry Paulson
General Motors
Chrysler
Detroit
White House
Paulson
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
American Enterprise Institute
Regulators OK sweeping new credit card rules
Federal regulators adopted broad rules to shield consumers from rate hikes on existing balances and limit rate increases to new cards and future purchases. The July 2010 effective measures from the Fed, Treasury and NCUA aim to curb arbitrary rate changes amid the financial crisis and rising unemployment.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
Treasury Department
Office of Thrift Supervision
National Credit , Union Administration
Fed
Ben Bernanke
Journal World Staff Contacts and Subscription Info
Names and titles for LA Journal World staff include Dennis Anderson Caroline Trowbridge Ann Gardner Tom Keegan Jon Niccum Terry Rombeck and Jonathan Kealing. News partners 6News Cody Howard and Mediaphormedia Dan Cox are listed. Subscriptions phone lines operate weekdays and weekends with redelivery guarantee in-town if reported before set times.
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Dennis Anderson
Danderson
Jworld
Caroline Trowbridge
Drowbridge
Ann Gardner
Agardner
Tom Keegan
Tkeegan
lIjworld
Jon Niccum
News Partners
Cody Howard
Howard
Sunflowerbroadband
Mediaphormedia
Dan Cox
Deax
Ljworld
Lawrence poll asks if letters to Santa impact recycling
Lawrence residents weigh in on recycling behavior in a Thursday poll. The survey asks whether knowing the city struggles to dispose of collected recyclables changes their likelihood to use city recycling bins. Voters can visit LJWorld.com to see results and vote.
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Ljworld
Liworld
Kansas University
Lawrence
BOO
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Washington, D.C
Iraq
Alberto Gonzales
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Henry Waxman
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Condoleezza Rice
Waxman
Frederick Hill
Darrell Issa
Baghdad
Muntadhar al-Zeidi
Cairo
Egypt
al-Zeidi
Greece
Lefteris Pitaeakis
Athens
Bank of Greece
New York
Dana Perino
Wall Street
United Auto Workers
Regulators
New Credit Card
Journal-World
Chris Ball
Tony Berg
Berg
aSt
City Hall
Uva
Tarsree
Massachusetts
Ljworld.com
Santa
Kansas
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