"It will open new employment land for the town and really help to drive the economic recovery going forward, " Mr Flaherty said.

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Promoting information-technology industries should dominate our agenda because they will open up tremendous opportunities for employment.

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Instead, they said, the Federal Open Market Committee may want to see more employment reports and other data before considering anything to stimulate the U.S. economy.

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Lord Lawson and other supporters of British withdrawal would say that lifting the burden of European bureaucracy would create a lot more employment, and income - and open the eyes of British business to the many opportunities available outside Europe.

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Christopher Leonard, a reporter for the Associated Press, writes that even with high employment, employers are having a hard time finding qualified people to fill open jobs in fields like nursing, engineering and energy research.

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In its statement Tuesday the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets the rates, says that the pace of the recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months, and that it is likely to be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated.

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