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Hurt by a late-year strike and shrinking airline demand, Boeing Co.'s passenger jet deliveries fell 15 percent in 2008, ensuring that archrival Airbus retained its rank as the world's top plane maker.
A year that started poorly got worse for the nation's home improvement retailers, as the housing market meltdown pushed the economy toward recession and financial institutions sparked a global economic disaster.
The following are estimates of violent deaths in Afghanistan in 2008 compiled by The Associated Press based on figures from Western and Afghan officials. The count is not definitive and relies heavily on official statements.
Shares of grocery and drug retailers fell in 2008, but not as much as the broader market, as shoppers spent what little money they did have on staples like groceries and prescriptions.
Stricter regulation, a dearth of new blockbuster drugs, increased pressure to lower prices and more intense generic competition hammered the pharmaceutical industry in 2008, but its stocks still weathered the market collapse better than many other sectors.
Managed care stocks were hammered in 2008, as higher-than-expected medical costs burned up health insurers' profits and skittish investors wrung their hands over the companies' potential exposure to failed investment banks.
Sharp gains in shares of biotechnology heavyweights mitigated the wider sector's decline in 2008. Biotech stocks proved to be one of the safest investments this year, as strong drug sales and the potential for large buyout deals defended the sector from broader market collapse.
Health care stocks are typically seen as a hedge against financial downturns, but medical device shares declined steeply in 2008 as broader economic worries exacerbated declines linked to product safety concerns.
The number of new drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration has ticked upward in 2008, even as regulators failed to meet review deadlines on more than a dozen drugs.
THE POLL: Quinnipiac University poll, presidential race in Florida among likely voters. (The state has 27 electoral votes.)
THE POLL: Denver Post poll, the presidential race among likely voters in Colorado (9 electoral votes).
THE POLL: Detroit Free Press/WDIV-TV poll, the presidential race among likely voters in Michigan (17 electoral votes).
THE POLL: Des Moines Register poll of likely voters in Iowa (7 electoral votes)
THE POLL: Indianapolis Star/WTHR-TV, presidential race in Indiana (11 electoral votes).
THE POLL: The Cronkite/Eight Poll on the presidential race among registered voters in Arizona (10 electoral votes).
THE POLL: Marist Poll, national presidential race among likely voters.
THE POLL: South Bend Tribune/WSBT-TV, presidential race in Indiana among likely voters (11 electoral votes).
THE POLL: Virginia Commonwealth University, presidential race in Virginia among likely voters (13 electoral votes).
THE POLL: Boston Globe presidential poll of 725 likely voters in New Hampshire (four electoral votes).
THE POLL: KCCI-TV poll, presidential race in Iowa among likely voters. (7 electoral votes)
THE POLL: EPIC-MRA poll for The Detroit News and TV stations WXYZ, WILX, WOOD and WJRT; national presidential race among likely voters in Michigan (17 electoral votes).
Results of the Big Ten Battleground Poll, which asked voters in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota for their views on the presidential race.
THE POLL: Public Policy Institute of California; national presidential race among likely voters in California (55 electoral votes).
Fox News Again Airs Misleading Video, This to Promote PalinFor the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage.
Top Obama Bundler Who Stormed Stage During Sarah Palin's RNC Speech Admits Meeting With TalibanTop Obama Bundler Who Stormed Stage During Sarah Palin's RNC Speech Admits Meeting With Taliban
McCain camp: Palin account 'all fiction'Top aides to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign hit back at Sarah Palin Friday and Saturday, calling the former vice presidential nominee's soon-to-be-released book "revisionist and self serving" "fiction."
Sarah Palin's Lost SpeechesWe present exclusively the concession speech that speechwriter Matthew Scully—a Palin loyalist—had written for the vice presidential nominee, as well as the victory speech that he penned for her in the event of a positive outcome.
OK, there's been a terrible government SNAFU (like that would be a big surprise) the results of the November 2008 President election have been declared invalid. A new vote must be taken. There will be no campaigning allowed and no new entries into the race.
Held by the TalibanIn the fall of 2008, David Rohde traveled to Afghanistan to do some reporting for a book about the region. He and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by the Taliban and held for seven months. This is a five part series documenting his time in captivity.
Workers reflect on life after ArchwayOne year ago, Archway Cookies locked its Claremont Avenue bakery, crumbling the hopes of the company's nearly 300 employees. Employees came to work Oct. 3 to find the bakery shut down and a message on the phone system informing workers there was no production work that day.
Man gets life for molesting a child less than 12 in 2008 Kenneth O'Brien was convicted on six counts of sexual battery on a child less than 12 years old this week.
Bush on Palin: 'What is she, the governor of Guam?'Two articles: Maybe I misunderestimated the guy
During this month's town hall meetings held by members of Congress, activists have protested while displaying pictures depicting President Obama as the Joker or as Hitler, wearing guns openly to the protests, and advocating violence in furtherance of political objectives.
At Town Hall in Arizona McCain Promises Not To Give Any Health Care to ACORNLast year, Senator John McCain demanded that Barack Obama have 100,000 town halls with him, daily, until election day. So he is loving this month. His town hall was a sleepy affair, but it's Arizona, so there was crazy!
VERA Files wins top journalism prize for Quedancor story[Manila, Philippines--]VERA FILES trustees Yvonne Chua and Luz Rimban, and contributor Diosa Labiste won the top prize at the 2009 Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism (JVOAEJ) for their investigative report "Quedancor swine program another fertilizer scam."
Ensign may find it tough to move onThe first public statement from the woman once involved with the 51-year-old rising political star suggests more is brewing behind the Nevada senator's neat account.
Sen. John Ensign admits to extramarital affairRepublican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada is admitting he had an extramarital affair with a member of his campaign staff.
It was an atypical political atmosphere; neither the sitting President nor the sitting Vice President was on the ticket for his party's nomination. The incumbent president once enjoyed stratospheric job approval ratings.
U.S. says Pakistan terrorist attacks upThe number of terrorist attacks around the world fell by 18 percent last year but rose dramatically in Pakistan, growing in frequency and lethality, the U.S. State Department says.
Fed Said to Order Banks to Stay Mum on Stress Test Results Re: This ploy by the Feds is a complete and total outrage….it's just another gross example of the total manipulation of our markets.
A Bible doubled as a meth cookbook for this pair - Two arrested for manufacturing methamphetamine in the same building where an active lab had exploded on Oct. 16 of last year (With Photo of Bible)ELKHART --- Two people arrested Tuesday night for methamphetamine possession and manufacturing kept their recipe for meth in an unusual spot -- in the Bible.
Is Barack Obama our Franklin Roosevelt? (Part 1) People regularly search the past for parallels to the present.
Reid pushes bill to make renewable energy 'top national priority'In the spirit of Obama, let us think beyond ourselves. For our community, country and climate: Now is the time to drive less. Be a Patriot - put away the car keys! Please answer these questions below, thanks!
STEFANIE RENGEL SLAYING: FIRST-DEGREE MURDER TRIAL - How teen drama hooked up with lethal realityExcerpt: As the disturbing portrait of an obsessed and driven killer emerged from a prosecutor's opening statement in Ontario Superior Court yesterday, a teenaged girl, owlish glasses on her chubby cheeks and her long hair in a ponytail, sat serenely at a table near the front of …
Great Depression Quotes 1929 vs 2008: Have We Learned Anything?A few select quotes during the depression years of 1929 to 1931.
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