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kentuckydan
10-02-2008, 12:54 PM
World markets mixed after Senate OKs bailout plan (http://apnews.excite.com/article/20081002/D93IA5980.html)

I could not resist saving a screen shot of this page, though I would ASSUME
that sooner or later they will wake up and edit the following

Bleak data released overnight in the U.S. added to fears for the world's largest economy. Auto sales plummeted, and a key measure of U.S. manufacturing activity hit its lowest level since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2002 terrorist attacks

Lucker
10-02-2008, 01:04 PM
Clearly you don't know what happened that day .
It was shocking .

Voobrazheniye
10-02-2008, 03:10 PM
As with most of the MSM, the Associtated Press has been quality-deficient for some time now.

The only thing they do right is the Associated Press Handbook of Style... the BEST guidebook for English-language usage in the world.

alpine-frolic
10-02-2008, 04:14 PM
World markets mixed after Senate OKs bailout plan (http://apnews.excite.com/article/20081002/D93IA5980.html)

I could not resist saving a screen shot of this page, though I would ASSUME
that sooner or later they will wake up and edit the following


Ah, ah ah ah, yes of course, one year too soon, it was in 2003 no?