ACROSS THE BOARD : THE WEEK AHEAD.MONDAYLabor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. . U.S. financial markets, government offices and banks will be closed. Financial markets will be open in other countries. ALSO TUESDAY: Treasury bill auction. WEDNESDAY: Federal Reserve reports on consumer credit for July, 3 p.m. THURSDAY: Labor Department The Department of Labor (DOL) administers federal labor laws for the Executive Branch of the federal government. Its mission is "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working reports on weekly jobless claims Initial Jobless Claims is a report issued by the U.S. Department of Labor on a weekly basis. This report tracks how many people have filed for unemployment benefits in the previous week. It is a good gauge of the U.S. job market. . FRIDAY: Labor Department reports producer prices for August. BIZ BYTES KISS AND TELL "Kiss and Tell" is the seventh episode of the first season of the television series Gilmore Girls. It originally aired on November 16, 2000. Plot After school Rory goes into Doose's Market to see Dean. : The U.S. Department of Energy sent a notice last month that requires 67,000 workers cleared to handle defense secrets to tell counterintelligence coun·ter·in·tel·li·gence n. The branch of an intelligence service charged with keeping sensitive information from an enemy, deceiving that enemy, preventing subversion and sabotage, and collecting political and military information. officers about any romantic or sexual liaisons with people from countries thought to be developing nuclear weapons. Those countries include all former Soviet republics, China, Israel, India, North Korea, Cuba and Taiwan. Employees also are expected to report friendships or professional relationships with any foreign national if they spend ``private time'' together - even on the Internet - or if either one shares information about their personal or professional lives. The reason? Foreign intelligence agencies sometimes use young women to tease secrets from American scientists during pillow talk or other romantic liaisons, according to Ed Curran, counterintelligence chief for the Energy Department. - Associated Press SITE OF THE WEEK GRANDMA'S WORLD: For those looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. something that would appeal to senior citizens, it's hard to beat www.grandmabetty.com. Operated as a hobby by a real Grandma Betty - Mrs. Fox of Queens, N.Y. - the site contains original material plus hundreds of links to other sites, all selected by Fox based on what she thinks are its visitors' interests. Most of the site's categories offer very good lists of links. Under investing, for example, there are links to scores of sites, from American Express to Ziegler Thrift Trading, an online brokerage firm. Other categories include entertainment, government, health, travel, magazines, memorabilia, news and weather. - The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times |
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