Posts Tagged ‘concerns’

Stocks slump as concerns about economy grow (AP)

In this Aug. 1, 2011, trader John Bowers works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Global stock markets tumbled Tuesday, Aug. 2, after downbeat U.S. data fueled fears the world's largest economy might be sliding back into recession.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP – The Dow Jones industrial average is falling for an eighth straight day as investors react to more signs of weakness in the U.S. economy.


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Debt-limit votes: Senate momentum, House concerns (AP)

House Speaker John Boehner Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Aug. 1, 2011,  as lawmakers work to finalize the debt deal agreement with one day left to avert a default.     (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – Emergency legislation to avoid an economy-rattling government default and slice federal spending by $2 trillion or more sped toward a showdown vote in the House on Monday and possibly the Senate as well, just a day before the deadline for action.


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Palace: Never raised concerns over Andy Coulson (AP)

Committee members react after a protestor, left checked shirt , named on Twitter as Jonnie Marbles, tries to throw  a paper plate covered in shaving foam over Rupert Murdoch as he gave evidence to a House of Commons Committee in London, Tuesday July 19, 2011, on the News of the World phone hacking scandal.(AP Photo/pa)  UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE:AP – Buckingham Palace says it never raised concerns with Prime Minister David Cameron’s office over his decision to hire Andy Coulson as his communications chief.


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Japan to halt 3 nuke reactors over quake concerns (AP)

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, left, greets Economy,Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda after a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo Friday, May 6, 2011. Kan said that his government has asked Chubu Electric Power Co. to halt all three nuclear reactors at Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, as a precaution amid rising fear of a major earthquake in the region. Kaieda made Thursday, May 5, an inspection tour of Hamaoka nuclear plant and its 10-meter (33 feet) to 15-meter (49 feet) high sand dune which is said to be protecting the complex from tsunami. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP – Japan’s prime minister said Friday he instructed a utility to halt all three reactors at a power plant in central Japan because of safety concerns in the event of a major earthquake and tsunami.


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1 year after Times Square scare, concerns endure (AP)

In an April 27, 2011 photo, Duane Jackson, one of the first people to alert police officers to a suspicious vehicle that contained a crude bomb in New York's Times Square,  May, 1, 2010, works at his stand. One year after a militant Pakistani immigrant spread a wave of fear by driving a bomb-laden SUV into the heart of Times Square, New Yorkers, tourists and even the street vendor who alerted police to the smoking vehicle still flock to 'The Crossroads of the World' as if it never happened. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP – One year after a militant from Connecticut spread panic by driving a bomb-laden SUV into the heart of Times Square, New Yorkers, tourists and even the street vendor who alerted police to the smoking vehicle still descend on “The Crossroads of the World” as if it never happened.


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Radiation in Tokyo tap water raises concerns (AP)

Spinach from Kanagawa prefecture, left rear, and other leaf vegetables are on sale at a greengrocery in Tokyo on Wednesday March 23, 2011. Traces of radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in northeastern Japan are being found in vegetables and raw milk from a swath of farmland, forcing a government ban on sales from those areas. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP – Radiation levels in Tokyo tap water more than twice what is considered safe for infants added to food safety woes Wednesday as rising smoke prompted a new evacuation of workers trying to stabilize Japan’s radiation-leaking nuclear plant.


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Gibbs: Concerns over body scans will be considered (AP)

A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) volunteer demonstrates a full-body scanner at O'Hare International Airport in March 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Airline passengers worried about new security scanners filming their privates now have a way out: anti-radiation underwear.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AP – With the Thanksgiving holiday travel rush welling up, the White House said Monday the government will take into account the public’s concerns and complaints as it evaluates rigid new airline boarding security checks.


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