51.   Technically, this will require Bruce Babbitt, whose interior department oversees mining, to impose a moratorium on new claims.

52.   The government will continue issuing checks to recipients of Social Security, Medicare and veterans benefits, but bureaucrats who process new claims were among those deemed nonessential.

53.   The floodtide of new claims against priests comes at a time when the archdiocese is already in precarious financial condition.

54.   The increase was the first in three weeks, but new jobless claims remained relatively low compared with levels reached in early July.

55.   The government reported the first increase in business inventories in a year, while new jobless claims fell for the second week in a row.

56.   The four-week average of new jobless claims, a less volatile measure of employment conditions, also rose.

57.   The government said new claims for unemployment insurance fell last week to the lowest level since mid-February, indicating some leveling in layoffs.

58.   The new claim, meanwhile, fueled speculation that he would seek the death penalty against Taylor but not against Godineaux.

59.   The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits is currently at the lowest level this decade.

60.   The new claim, he insists, deals only with the mill at the time of the fire, and the injuries suffered by the workers.