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The BOJ board said that while they won ' t have much direct impact on the Japanese economy for the time being , they could give rise to inflation in other countries , potentially affecting Japan .
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The board said that while restructuring at companies and financial institutions might ` ` lay the foundation for economic growth over the medium to long term , ' ' in the short term such moves could ` ` further adversely affect the economy . ' '
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In the financial sector , the board said that bank lending was expected to stay sluggish .
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WASHINGTON ( AP ) _ The 45 . 2 million Americans getting Social Security checks will see them grow by 3 . 5 percent next year , the biggest cost - of - living increase in almost a decade .
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That ' s because inflation has picked up speed , almost entirely a reflection of surging energy prices .
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The increases , which will begin showing up in benefit payments for January , were announced by Social Security based on inflation figures released Wednesday by the Labor Department .
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The cost - of - living announcement comes just weeks before Americans elect a new president Nov . 7 .
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Florida and Pennsylvania _ among the tossup states in the presidential race _ have a large number of older people , who tend to be the most likely to vote .
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Texas Gov . George W . Bush , the Republican presidential nominee , and Vice President Al Gore , the Democrat , have repeatedly clashed over Social Security .
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Bush proposes allowing individuals some control over how to invest their retirement funds , while Gore says that would threaten the long - term solvency of the nation ' s huge retirement system .
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The 3 . 5 percent increase was the largest since a 3 . 7 percent rise in 1992 .
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It means the average monthly check for retirees will rise by $ 29 to $ 845 next year , up from $ 816 this year .
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That compares with an increase of 2 . 4 percent for 2000 , which translated into an average of $ 19 a month more for retirees .
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In addition to retirement checks , the increases affect Social Security benefits paid to disabled workers and families whose breadwinners have died .
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The maximum monthly payment for low - income individuals receiving Supplemental Security Income , known as SSI , also will rise by 3 . 5 percent .
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That will boost the maximum monthly SSI check by $ 18 to $ 530 .
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Increased payments to SSI recipients will begin on Dec . 29 .
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` ` The annual cost - of - living adjustment is one of the most critically important features of the Social Security program , ' ' said Social Security Commissioner Kenneth Apfel .
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` ` For the elderly , it guarantees that their foundation of retirement income will remain strong for as long as they live . ' '
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Separately , the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the monthly Medicare premium deducted from most elderly and disabled Americans ' Social Security checks for insurance coverage of doctors ' office visits will increase by $ 4 . 50 to $ 50 in 2001 .
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The increase , which takes effect Jan . 1 , reflects higher health - care costs and changes in Medicare law .
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It is not based on the cost - of - living adjustment tied to the CPI .
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Since 1975 , the benefit cost - of - living adjustment has been automatic , requiring no vote by Congress .
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It is calculated based on changes in the Consumer Price Index _ the government ' s inflation yardstick _ from the third quarter of one year to the corresponding quarter of the next .
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Because of tame inflation , the yearly benefit boosts have been below 3 . 0 percent since 1994 .
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The 1999 increase of 1 . 3 percent , matched a record low set in 1987 .
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Crude - oil prices hit a 10 - year high in September , contributing to costlier gasoline and heating oil .
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While overall inflation is rising , it is still moderate compared with other periods .
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Double - digit inflation in the late 1970s , for example , drove the cost - of - living increase up to 14 . 3 percent in 1980 .
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Social Security also announced Wednesday that for working Americans , the maximum annual earnings subject to Social Security taxes next year will rise to $ 80 , 400 from $ 76 , 200 .
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That limit along with the Social Security tax rate of 6 . 2 percent is set by law .
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WASHINGTON _ Vice President Al Gore ' s nationwide lead in the popular vote has grown by about 200 , 000 , to more than half a million , since Dec . 18 , when the Electoral College sealed his fate and made Gov . George W . Bush the 43rd president of the United States .
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A state - by - state survey by The Associated Press of the final certified results put Gore ' s popular - vote edge at 539 , 947 , up considerably from the lead of about 337 , 000 that was widely reported in the first several weeks after the election .
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Much of the increase came in California , New York , and other , smaller states that went for Gore , said Curtis B . Gans of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate , a nonpartisan research group that has followed presidential elections for a quarter - century .
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Election officials in California and New York said Friday that the bigger numbers for Gore were not hard to explain .
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Both states had big absentee - ballot totals that could not be counted immediately and , because absentee votes generally do not vary sharply from Election Night returns , it was predictable that the absentees would widen the vice president ' s lead .
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Gans said that in 1996 , President Clinton ' s lead over Bob Dole grew by some 200 , 000 votes from election night until all absentee ballots were counted and all the votes certified , a fact all but forgotten except by political trivia buffs .
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` ` But it didn ' t matter , ' ' Gans said , in a race that the incumbent won by more than 8 million popular votes and by a 379 - 159 advantage in the all - important Electoral College .
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A total of 68 . 8 million votes were cast for president .
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Eight years later Nixon won the Electoral College and a popular - vote margin of 510 , 645 out of 73 . 2 million votes cast for president .
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The 2000 election , of course , will be remembered as the first in 112 years in which the leader in the popular vote lost the White House because his opponent prevailed in the Electoral College .
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Bush got 271 electoral votes , one more than he needed for a majority and five more than Gore , who lost one vote in the Electoral College when a Washington , D . C . , elector left her ballot blank to protest the District of Columbia ' s lack of voting power in Congress .
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Gore won New York state , 4 , 107 , 697 - 2 , 403 , 374 , or by some 1 . 7 million votes .
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Lee Daghlian , the chief spokesman for the state ' s Board of Elections , said Friday that about 360 , 000 absentee ballots were requested , and that about 260 , 000 were returned in time to be counted .
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In New York , absentee ballots must be postmarked no later than the day before the election and received no later than a week after the election .
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Daghlian said absentee balloting was about 20 percent higher this year than in 1996 .
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He speculated that the presence of Sen . Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut on the Democratic ticket might have caused more American Jews to mail ballots from Israel .
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It was clear on Election Night that Gore had carried California in a landslide , so it was expected that the nearly 1 . 5 million absentee ballots that arrived in time to be accepted would sharply augment his victory _ and they did .
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The final certified totals in California were 5 , 861 , 203 for Gore and 4 , 567 , 429 for Bush .
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Alfie Charles , a spokesman for the California secretary of state , Bill Jones , said the percentage of Californians voting by absentee ballot has been increasing , and that about one - quarter do now .
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( Californians , unlike people in some states , can vote absentee without showing a compelling reason .
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Their ballots must arrive by Election Day to be counted . )
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In the ` ` Roadmap ' ' memo , for example , a chart showed how the profitability of a consumer loan decreases as it ages .
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` ` You can see how the earnings decline over time , ' ' the memo said .
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` ` Your controller can provide lists to you of aged personal loans to target for renewal . ' '
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ACE_2004
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Another memo , sent in 1991 to ` ` all branch managers , ' ' concerned Associates ' practice of acquiring consumer loans made by other lenders or retailers .
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` ` The principal reason we purchase an acquisition is to convert it to a more profitable loan , ' ' the memo stated .
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` ` If we cannot convert acquisitions , we cannot continue to purchase them . ' '
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The memo then stipulated that employees who renewed such loans , if secured by real estate , would receive a $ 100 bonus for each loan .
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Last month , in an investor conference call , Keith W . Hughes , the chief executive of Associates , who will join Citigroup as a vice chairman after the merger , cited the strong cultural similarities between the companies .
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But in an interview last week , Marge Magner , a Citigroup executive who previously oversaw Citigroup ' s consumer finance business , stressed what she said were big differences , particularly in how the sales staff is paid .
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Associates bases pay on the volume of loans that employees generate , a ` ` count your transactions ' ' approach , Magner said .
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At Citifinancial , she said , ` ` we deal with the business as a whole , the whole branch and how it ' s growing . ' '
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She also emphasized that the Citifinancial computer system used by the sales staff automatically rejected products and interest rate levels that did not seem suitable for a specific customer , giving Citifinancial a measure of centralized control over lending practices .
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` ` A lot of the compliance issues are built into the system , ' ' she said .
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TALLAHASSEE , Fla . _ The Florida Supreme Court rejected an appeal Friday by Vice President Al Gore that it begin the immediate manual recount of 14 , 000 disputed ballots from South Florida , forcing Gore ' s contest of the presidential election into a lower - court trial that begins Saturday morning .
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An hour later , the state ' s highest court dealt another blow to supporters of Gore in Palm Beach County , refusing to order a new election that many voters said was necessary because of the confusing nature of the ` ` butterfly ' ' ballot .
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The day in Tallahassee was not a complete loss for the vice president ' s camp , however .
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Judge N . Sanders Sauls of Leon County Circuit Court , who is presiding over the contest lawsuit , announced what could be a relatively brisk pace for Saturday ' s trial , expressing the hope that it could be concluded in one marathon 12 - hour session .
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If the judge should agree on Saturday to Gore ' s demand that the ballots be counted , the Democratic team would not be much further behind schedule than if the Supreme Court had agreed to the appeal .
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Lawyers for Gov . George W . Bush have vowed to use every argument at their disposal to make certain that no ballots are counted , and that the contest lawsuit is dismissed .
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But they backed away Friday from some earlier plans that could have delayed the trial , including a demand that three Florida counties send 1 . 17 million ballots to Tallahassee , in addition to the 1 . 16 million ballots from Palm Beach and Miami - Dade counties that finished arriving here Friday .
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Instead , the Bush lawyers agreed to the proposal by Sauls that the ballots in Volusia , Broward and Pinellas counties simply be impounded as possible evidence where they are , and not be transported .
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Bush ' s lawyers also said they would not insist that the opening of the trial deal with a series of new issues they raised in a brief on Thursday night .
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Those issues include whether Gore is really a candidate entitled to bring a contest lawsuit _ technically , only the electors for a candidate are on a presidential ballot _ and whether any presidential election can truly be contested under Florida law .
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The Bush team also agreed to call no more than 20 witnesses at the trial , not the 93 named in a witness list submitted Thursday night .
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Gore ' s lawyers plan to call two witnesses .
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The willingness of the Bush team to pare down its demands may have come from the realization that Sauls was not going to allow any obvious delay tactics in the trial .
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The judge said he understood why Gore needed to accelerate the process ; if the trial , the vote - counting and any subsequent appeals extend beyond Dec . 12 , the Florida Legislature will send Bush ' s electors to the Electoral College and the contest lawsuit will likely become moot .
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At a preliminary hearing Friday afternoon , Sauls made it clear he would take a no - nonsense approach to the trial .
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Lawyers for the various parties to the suit would not be allowed to repeat arguments already made , he said , an important consideration because there are multiple defendants in the suit : Bush ; Katherine Harris , the Florida secretary of state ; and the election boards of three counties .
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MOSCOW ( AP ) _ Russian lawmakers on Friday overwhelmingly approved the Soviet anthem as Russia ' s national hymn _ a move praised by some as a gesture of reconciliation and denounced by others as a symbolic approval of the nation ' s totalitarian past .
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The State Duma , or lower house of parliament , voted 381 - 51 to approve the bill , which was strongly backed by President Vladimir Putin .
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The move restored the old anthem ' s music by composer Alexander Alexandrov but not the original text that included praise for Communist leaders Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin .
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By the same strong majority , the Duma approved legislation formally endorsing the country ' s current white - red - and - blue flag as Russia ' s official flag .
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That legislation also brings back the Soviet - era red banner as the military ' s flag and retains the Czarist double - headed eagle as the state emblem .
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Putin has said the mixture of old Russian and Soviet symbols would mend bitter rifts in society by paying tribute to the positive heritage of both periods .
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He referred to opinion polls showing that most people prefer Alexandrov ' s music to a melody by 19th - century composer Mikhail Glinka , which has been Russia ' s anthem since the 1991 Soviet collapse .
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Liberal politicians and many leading cultural figures have strongly opposed the reinstatement of the Soviet anthem , saying it symbolized political repression .
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` ` We strongly protest against the Stalinist anthem , which is stained by the blood of millions of victims , ' ' said Grigory Yavlinsky , the head of the liberal Yabloko faction .
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Yabloko and another liberal faction , the Union of Right Forces , said they might appeal Friday ' s vote in the Constitutional Court .
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The Duma usually hears speeches by faction leaders before a vote , but this time lawmakers skipped the debate _ a move the liberals described as a procedural violation .
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"name": "lawmakers",
"pos": [
81,
90
],
"type": "person"
},
{
"name": "the liberals",
"pos": [
119,
131
],
"type": "person"
}
] |
ACE_2004
|
[
"geographical social political",
"organization",
"person",
"location",
"facility",
"vehicle",
"weapon"
] |
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