President Bush awards the 2008 National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals in Washington.
President George W. Bush (R) presents Robert H. Smith with the 2008 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House on November 17, 2008. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush handed out 2008 National Humanities Medals to nine people, a museum and a philanthropic foundation during a White House ceremony.
NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Home mortgages shouldn't be affected by news about two U.S. investment giants but economic experts say Wall Street's woes haven't reached bottom yet.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- A group of experts from academia, the private sector and government are putting their heads together to answer the long-nagging question: How do you measure the cost-effectiveness of cyber-security efforts? It is an issue, they say, that dogs officials and executives, leaving them reliant on intuition and a tick-the-box approach to security measures.
NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- There is fresh evidence that people spend less when paying cash than when using credit, cash-equivalent scrip or gift certificates, U.S. researchers said.
DALLAS, May 19 (UPI) -- Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc. is paying $107 million for the 697-room Marriott Crystal Gateway in Arlington, Va.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- The document's almost done and has begun to shape up nicely. Over the past several hours we worked out some bugs in the math, created adjustable formulas in the
WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates Wednesday came as no surprise, but the question now is how much and how often the Fed will continue to ja
Corporate America went on a hiring frenzy in April as companies added 288,000 jobs to their payrolls, driving the overall unemployment rate down to 5.6 percent.
WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI) -- The stock markets and economists were taken by surprise Friday morning with the report that U.S. non-farm payrolls grew by 308,000 in March, the largest gain in
The 2002 Statistical Abstract by the U.S. Census shows Americans nearly doubled their recycling of trash over the past decade.
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