Holiday shoppers brace for rougher service season
Nationwide, unemployment at 4.6 percent and tight hiring set the stage for strained customer service this Christmas. Britt Beemer of America's Research Group says about 37 percent view customer service as abysmal, signaling little improvement this season. In another AP dispatch, five snowboarders were swept from Mount Baldy at Snowbird, killing a 21 year old New Hampshire man and seriously injuring a woman. the group had ventured into Alta and Snowbird, neither open at the time.
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New York
Britt Beemer
America
Charleston, S.C
Salt Lake City
Wasatch Mountains
New Hampshire
Salt Lake County
Alta
Snowbird
Mount Baldy
Gasoline Prices Decline Nationwide Amid Slowing Demand
Camarillo based Lundberg Survey reports average gasoline price at 1.086 per gallon on Friday, down 86 cents from two weeks earlier. Self service regular 1.027, mid 1.135, premium 1.219. Full service regular 1.463, mid 1.55, premium 1.624. Prices fell across all regions as crude oil values eased.
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Camarillo
Calif
Lundberg
Trilby Lundberg
Ventura on Meet the Press Celebrates Equal Voters
Minnesota Governor elect Jesse Ventura appeared on Meet the Press saying the American dream remains available to anyone who wants it. He asserted that all men are created equal for American voters, including former professional wrestlers.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Jesse Ventura
Meet the Press
Ventura
Aid pours into Central America from US relief effort
American Red Cross vehicles deliver food for 1,000 families in Choluteca and water purification supplies as Honduras and Nicaragua battle flood and mudslide devastation from Hurricane Mitch. US aid totals rise to 70 million while remaining regions face blocked roads and possible mass migration.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Central America
American Red Cross
Choluteca
Ann Soto
Posolega
Bush
Carlos Flores
Mexico
United States
U.S. Agency For International Development
Teacher survives six days adrift after Mitch floods
Laura Isabel Arriola de Gully, a 36 year old Honduran schoolteacher, was swept from Barra de Aguan and adrift for six days in the Caribbean as Hurricane Mitch merged sea and river. Rescued by a British helicopter, she is recovering from dehydration and hypothermia in Trujillo. Her husband and three children died in the disaster, which officials say killed thousands in Central America.
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Trujillo
Honduras
Mitch
Caribbean Sea
Laura Isabel Arriola de Gully
Arriola
Central America
Barra de Aguan
Aguan River
Honduran
Nicaragua mudslide horror as bodies dot devastated hills
Reporter Rolando Rodriguez describes triage in a sunlit delta of rotting corpses and screaming children after Hurricane Mitch unleashed a catastrophic mudslide in Nicaragua. He recounts rescuers guiding him through fields of death, amputations, and a hospital scene where mangled victims beg for relief, yet hope persists amid aid efforts.
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Rolando Rodriguez
Nicaragua
Canaiela
German Prostitution Rights Debated By New Government
Bonn Germany AP reports the new government's women minister supports a draft law granting prostitutes the right to unemployment health and retirement benefits and to sue nonpaying clients. Current law taxes prostitutes but with no social welfare benefits.
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Bonn
Germany
Bergmann
Spiegel
Waxed or unwaxed floss: which to use for dental care
Waxed floss glides easier between teeth and avoids fraying. unwaxed floss cleans tightly spaced teeth without residue. If you have dental work or sensitive gums, choose undyed, non-coated floss and adjust tension to avoid injury.
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Posoltega
Ricardo Garcia
Selena
Pattaya
Thailand
Ripley's
Jer- Reed
Santa Cruz
Tajikistan
Dushanbe
Khudzhand
Zafar Saidov
Goteborg
Sweden
Rolf Johansson
Karen L. Reed
R.ph. Pharmacist
S. Kanawha St. Beckley
Joseph T. Kourey
West
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Beckley
George Lovegrove
Harper Road
Beckley, WV
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