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Recalls 
The following recalls have been announced:

MIDDAY BUSINESS REPORT: Pay rises to top in worker surveys 
Show me the money. In the 1990s, worker job-satisfaction surveys generally found that base pay ranked third, fourth or lower in factors that most influenced job attraction and retention.

Tri-State Neighbor 
Why do the names The Conservation Fund and Natural Resource Defense Council send a chill down my spine? I guess because they routinely seem to be against drilling our own oil, cutting our own trees and raising our own beef.