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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: Perpetua">presents a
community forum on the financial crisis<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 44pt; FONT-FAMILY: Chiller">Boom, Bust and
Bailout!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: Perpetua">Professors
James Crotty and Gerald Friedman<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: Perpetua">Dept. of
Economics, UMass. , <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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w:st="on">Amherst</st1:place></st1:City></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: Perpetua">Date: <SPAN
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30, 2008 <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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p.m.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: Perpetua">Location:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: Perpetua">121 N Pleasant St, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Amherst</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Perpetua">For more
information, contact: Emily Kawano, 413-545-0743,
emily@populareconomics.org<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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by: Unitarian Universalist Society of <st1:City w:st="on">Amherst</st1:City>,
<st1:place w:st="on">W. Mass.</st1:place> Jobs with Justice, and
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