Posts Tagged ‘Slides’

Ten killed as bus slides off road in central Portugal

LISBON (Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed and 33 injured when a bus slid off a highway in central Portugal on Sunday and plummeted down a steep slope, emergency services said. Officials did not say what caused the accident near the town of Serta but heavy rain was falling at the time. The [...]

Greece Slides Into Depression

“The spread of economic hardship is fraying Greece’s social fabric and straining its political cohesion as the country enters the harshest winter of its three-year-old debt crisis,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Tweet This Post

Analysis: China slides faster into pensions black hole

QINGHAI, LEDU COUNTY, China (Reuters) – Eighty-year-old Chinese farmer Guo Shuhe receives a state pension equivalent to just $ 9 a month, not enough to buy a month worth of groceries, but enough it seems, to risk punching a gaping hole in government finances. Guo, whose palms are thick and rough from a life spent [...]

Health Care Law Support Slides

The recent Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law have not helped the public’s perception of the landmark legislation. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds just 39% of Americans support the reforms, it’s lowest percentage ever. Tweet This Post

Health Care Law Support Slides

The recent Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law have not helped the public’s perception of the landmark legislation. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds just 39% of Americans support the reforms, it’s lowest percentage ever. Tweet This Post

Santorum Slides Back in New Hampshire

The Suffolk University tracking poll in New Hampshire continues to find Mitt Romney with a big lead over his GOP rivals, but it also shows Rick Sanotrum’s surge stopping as he slips back into fourth place. Tweet This Post

Obama Begins Bus Tour as Approval Slides

First Read: “A long and very fluid GOP race might be exactly what the doctor ordered for President Obama, whose job-approval rating sunk to 39% in Gallup’s daily tracking poll. He also needs some better economic news, as well as some luck (which he really hasn’t had since that Osama bin Laden raid back in [...]