World & Nation
When the city of New York recently threw a ticker-tape parade for the world champion Yankees, the mayor’s office issued a release crowing that 3.5 million people had lined the mile-long route.
Nov. 29, 1996
Politics
The Commerce Department moved much closer to extinction Friday as House GOP leaders agreed to include a provision calling for its demise in the massive budget measure scheduled for a floor vote later this month.
Oct. 14, 1995
California
This is in reply to Mark Adams’ letter (“Cool Summer,” Sept. 15) as to the impact on temperature statistics of moving the downtown weather station to the USC campus from a DWP location.
Sept. 24, 1999
Nation Now
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Sept. 5, 2011
Business
U.S. airlines posted their worst first-quarter performance on late flights in 11 years as they struggled with bad weather and an overloaded air-traffic control system.
May 8, 2007
Rain fell on broad regions of the state Wednesday and snow piled up in the Sierra Nevada from the latest in a series of storms that has nourished lowered reservoirs, delighted skiers and raised cautious hope that maybe--just maybe--the impact this summer of five dry years might not be as severe as was feared just two weeks ago.
March 14, 1991
Hahn touts the fact in his reelection bid. Bratton says wet weather isn’t the only reason for decline.
April 18, 2005
Archives
Best Places to Raise Your Family Bert Sperling and Peter Sander Wiley Publishing Inc.: 414 pp., $24.99
June 11, 2006
Sports
As statistics proliferate, they unfortunately tend to confuse rather than enlighten.
Severe winter weather and statistical aberrations sent the nation’s overall jobless rate soaring by 0.6 percentage points to 7.2% in February, the largest one-month gain in almost six years, the Labor Department reported Friday.
March 8, 1986