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Diesel prices just keep climbing, and the woes they engender keep spreading.

A new Department of Energy policy of buying crude oil to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve without regard to already high prices caused further spikes in fuel prices, said a study by Senate Democrats.

Non-farm payrolls declined by 308,000 jobs in February, helping to push the unemployment rate up to 5.8%, the Labor Department said Friday.

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Orders placed at U.S. factories rose 2.1% in January, their largest increase in six months, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Companies in the United States were more efficient in the fourth quarter, a revised report by the Labor Department said Thursday. The department's quarterly report on productivity was revised upward to an annual rate of 0.8%.

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WASHINGTON — The Department of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøland Security, a massive new federal agency that President Bush requested in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, officially opened its doors last week, with transportation security one of its major missions.

WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board said the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration still lacks the ability to ensure unsafe trucking companies are not allowed to enter the business, despite new rules it put in place this January.

With some motorists paying more than $2 for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline, industry experts sounded alarms that low fuel inventories could lead to record prices and possibly even shortages during the peak driving season.