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Rate Board Denies Postal Service Price Hike Plea

WASHINGTON (Sept. 30) - The independent panel that oversees the U.S. Postal Service has denied the agency's request to increase the cost of mailing a letter by 2 cents -- to 46 cents. The Postal Regulatory Commission announced its decision rejecting the requested price hike at a news conference Thursday. In July, the...

A Maverick at the Fed Wants to Raise Rates

(Aug. 14) -- Few economists, politicians, small-business owners or American unemployed who number in the millions would disagree with Thomas Hoenig's opening assertion at a town hall meeting in Lincoln, Neb. "These are trying times," said Hoenig, a voting member of the Federal Reserve's interest rate-setting committee and...

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Rates () is a Portuguese parish and town located in the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim. In the census of 2001, it had a population of 2,539 inhabitants and a total area of 13.88 square kilometres.

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