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Half-million jobs vanish as economy deteriorates      (AP)
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Yahoo on 05/12/2008 23:27:39
 
AP - An alarming half-million American jobs vanished virtually in a flash last
month, the worst mass layoffs in over a third of a century, as economic carnage
spread ever faster and the nation hurtled toward what could be the hardest hard
times since the Great Depression.