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Employment and Unemployment Developments, November 1998.
Employment and Earnings
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December 1, 1998
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Employment increased in November, and the unemployment rate edged down to 4.4 percent. Nonfarm payroll employment grew by 267,000, with sizable job gains in services, construction, and retail trade more than offsetting another large decline in manufacturing.
Unemployment
Both the number of unemployed persons, 6.1 million, and the unemployment rate, 4.4 percent, edged down in November. Over the last 12 months, the jobless rate has ranged from 4.3 to 4.7 percent. Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (3.5 percent) and whites (3.8 ...
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Port Elizabeth Waits For its Ship to Come in
Magazine article from: Business News New Jersey
; ...fit in their hulls - to Port Elizabeth/Newark is inextricably...face in preparing Port Elizabeth/Newark for the next...Maersk Sealand, the port's largest shipping...acre terminal at Port Elizabeth. The new terminal follows...
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Port Elizabeth Setting Records as Premier Port on East Coast
Magazine article from: New Jersey Business
; ...At the Elizabeth container port there are two key operators...the world with more than 30 ports around the globe. Last year, these ports moved some 22 million container trailers. APM Terminal in Port Elizabeth had been known as Maersk Sealand...
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Port Elizabeth Elects South Africa's First Black Mayor
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...white communities in the city of Port Elizabeth, an industrial and tourist center...maneuvers through the muddy lanes of Port Elizabeth's most desolate neighborhood...at this city council meeting on Port Elizabeth's first post-apartheid budget...
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Security of Port Elizabeth, N.J., Is Costly, U.S. Coast Guard Tells Congress.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; ...Business News Mar. 27--PORT ELIZABETH, N.J.--The U.S. Coast...to safeguard Port Newark-Elizabeth, the busiest seaport on the...initiatives. In addition, a port-security bill sponsored by...for three years for grants to ports for technology and equipment...
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Port Elizabeth upgrade.(South African airport upgrade)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Airports International
; Port Elizabeth Airport, South Africa, is currently...International travellers to and from Port Elizabeth are, in most instances, catching a...Company of South Africa (ACSA) in Port Elizabeth, said that only Port Elizabeth-based...
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Port Elizabeth Health Care After Apartheid
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...revisits the South African city of Port Elizabeth to learn how blacks and whites...The latest trip focused on Port Elizabeth's luxurious new public hospital...construction finished, though, Port Elizabeth officials were shocked to learn...
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(Special for CAFS) Port Elizabeth dropped from FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 schedule
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; (Special for CAFS) Port Elizabeth dropped from FIFA Confederations...Xinhua) -- Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth have been removed Tuesday from the...to the Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth Stadium, the OC Chairman Dr Irvin...
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SAA flights to Port Elizabeth will stay.(Business Report)
Newspaper article from: The Star (South Africa)
; ...destinations but hold on to its marginal service to Port Elizabeth, the loss making airline said yesterday. This...Chalmers said it would hold on to the Port Elizabeth route. The Port Elizabeth route is marginal [to SAA], but it is crucial...
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New Company Jayco South Africa LLC to Develop Port Elizabeth Hotel/Resort for World Cup 2010, with Thabang Lesaoana as President.
Business Wire
; ...Parliament on Wednesday 2/14 PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa -- Jayco South...LLC, to be headquartered in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, today announced...development of Madiba Bay in Port Elizabeth, a luxury hotel/resort that...
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FIFA rooms challenge for Port Elizabeth
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; FIFA rooms challenge for Port Elizabeth JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's Port Elizabeth is racing against the clock to secure...matches in other centers. If Port Elizabeth fails to meet the targeted rooms...
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