Addressing students from several Washington area schools as well as dignitaries such as African-American activist and social educator Dorothy Height, the Obamas referred to the progress women in America have made over the decades in securing their rights.

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So given the encouraging news we received today on jobs, it would be the height of irresponsibility to halt our economic momentum because of the same old Washington politics.

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In 1999, at the height of the internet boom, two "old economy"newspaper giants, the Washington Post Co. and the Tribune Co.

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