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Political Memo Focus on Economy Poses Problems for Candidates
Jul 9 2008, Kadambini Thakur

WASHINGTON — Not since at least 1980, when the United States was reeling from the oil shocks, inflation and slow growth of the previous decade, has the economy been in worse shape heading into the heart of a presidential campaign. The crush of bad...

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