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Standard and Poor downgrades Greece

Dec. 17, 2009
ATHENS Ratings agency Standard and Poor's downgraded Greece's credit rating Wednesday, voicing doubts that recent measures announced by the center-left government would tame the country's ballooning public debt. Last week another agency, Fitch, cut its own rating on Greece's national debt. The...
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Youngsters compete in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Contestants (L-R) Cooper Barth of West Long Branch, New Jersey, Eboseremhen Eigbe of Galloway, New Jersey, Jacob Bayly Hunter of Sante Fe, New Mexico and Massound Sharif of Albany, New York, all await their turns to compete during the 3rd round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. UPI/Mike Theiler