NH OUTLOOK ROUNDTABLE EDITION, Friday, 7/6/2001
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Next on New Hampshire Outlook tonight.
Journalists from around the state talk about the week's top stories - from worries over one of the North Country's top employers to a professor's plea to probe for UFOs.
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Here's a look at other stories making news this Friday.
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The nation's unemployment rate rose to four and a-half percent last month, up one-tenth of a percent from May. Businesses slashed 114-thousand jobs,more than expected. Manufacturers continue to report heavy job losses. Demand for workers in service industries fell to its lowest level in ten months.
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The unemployment numbers were up in New Hampshire as well. Even though the state consistently has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, 46-hundred-77 people filed first-time claims in June. That was double that of a year ago. Manchester, Nashua and Portsmouth were hardest hit. Manufacturing lost the most jobs.


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The unemployment numbers and more quarterly earnings warnings sparked a sharp sell off on wall street.The Dow Jones industrial average was down just over 227 points. The Nasdaq composite index was off almost 76 points at two-thousand-four.
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Here's a look at stocks of interest to New Hampshire investors. Shares of Anheuser Busch were up 25-cents. Cabletron stock closed down one-dollar. Shares of State Street Corporation lost a-dollar-and-eleven cents. Teradyne ended the day down 3-dollars-and-fifty-cents-a-share. And Timberland stock was down 70-cents.
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Communities from New Hampshire and Massachusetts are joining forces to fund a pollution study of the Merrimack River. Nashua, Manchester, Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill will each pitch in 100-thousand dollars to the river study. The U-S Army Corps of Engineers will kick in 500 thousand. Officials are worried that the river is being polluted by overflowing sewer pipes.

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It's a sticky situation or is it? Many of the 500-thousand NH inspection stickers handed out since January are bubbling, shriveling and falling off windshields.
State officials aren't sure what's wrong, but they are having the Maine company that supplies the stickers pay to reprint the 500-thousand stickers yet to be used.
Until then, some people are recommending clear tape to keep the stickers in place.


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A spectacular day in places around New Hampshire. To find out how things are shaping up for the weekend ahead, we checked in with Tod Hagen at the Mount Washington Observatory.
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CG:WEATHER\Mount Washington Observatory\Today on the Summit\Temperature: 34 degrees\Wind: West at 40 mph\Fog\Visibility: 100 feet
CG:WEATHER\Tonight\North\Becoming mostly clear\Lows: 40 to 45 degrees\Winds: light\
CG:WEATHER\Tonight\South\Becoming clear\Lows: 45 to 50 degrees\Winds: light\
CG:WEATHER\Tomorrow\Statewide\Increasing cloudiness\Highs: 75 to 80\Winds: Southwest 10 to 15 mph\
CG:WEATHER\Sunday\Statewide\Mostly cloudy \Chance of showers and thunderstorms\Highs North: 70-75 degrees\Highs South: 75-80 degrees
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That's all for this edition of Outlook tonight.
We'll be back Monday at 7:30. Have a great weekend.
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Thanks to our founding sponsors who have provided major funding for the production of New Hampshire Outlook:
New Hampshire Charitable Foundadtion
Public Service of New Hampshire
Alice J. Reen Charitable Trust
Putnam Foundation
Stratford Foundation
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Cargo traffic at Pease International Tradeport has dropped dramatically this year. The airport manager says the numbers are off by about 40 percent. One industry expert says the slowdown in the economy is to blame and that air freight nationwide is down ten to 20 percent.
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Sunday, July 8
ALSTEAD - Vietnamese Cultural Celebration. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Strawberry Farm, Route 123. Call 224-4071.
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