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Downsized U.S. Air Base Hits Azores Islands Hard - audio only

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    small portuguese community image of the
    train tickets and two thousand minds
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    from the west coast has planted europe's
    financial crisis better get paid
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    the reason why is because of the
    presence of alight us air force base
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    that has been used bam bam pits for over
    six decades as originally station
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    fighter jets in question appoints
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    the basis providing low-cost jobs
    adequately with the much-needed cash
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    injection
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    but that's about to change
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    but just how much does it for cheap also
    deposit three hundred eighty americans
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    living on dc-ten iseries islands would
    have hoped as part of the us
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    government plan to cut five hundred
    billion dollars expected
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    left behind it be a hundred sixty
    american military personnel reduced
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    portuguese support staff and hundreds of
    fitting pride locals officials here say
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    the consequences will be back here for
    discount twenty two thousand restaurants
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    x
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    numbers are all fall from any angle you
    look at mainly in the media reduction of
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    thirty percent of the gross domestic
    product of our community on local
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    unemployment could go from eight percent
    twenty persons
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    is to buy whatever reality to a small
    community and island but his always
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    welcomed the americans like family
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    the us presence everywhere get
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    bakery owner michael dot don't soces
    news of the pressure us exit to key
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    west europe mania fiscal smith
    super-secret topless future in their
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    spending less money
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    feels that already dropped eight percent
    critics forty two twenty five percent
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    without a doubt
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    carolco workers at the base the future
    looks difficult here
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    play the guitar sound economic
    activities theory into production to the
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    crest again purchase contact group
    committees and holding up but they had a
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    chance of finding out the top of the
    island any single feature another
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    country maybe they'll be option
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    nicht
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    image right now the future is uncertain
    for all workers especially for the young
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    ones
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    personally and what i feel from
    colleagues is that we don't know what
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    will happen tomorrow depressed because i
    have our productivity levels at one
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    hundred percent it's half past that
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    people have families homes that's
    children and they don't know what the
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    future s
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    if isn't supporting jerry us defense
    secretary appended to the polls to help
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    minimize the impact of the portuguese
    community could he makes sure local
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    state has made in the military jobs
    that's possible
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    pieces have all said he said that the
    task force to identify possible pieces
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    of parties for private investors
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    but locals say they're skeptical yeah i
    did but wrecked indeed be contestants at
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    that time itself in europe space and
    economic crisis has no went
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    for the wall street journal suspension
    house disorders
Title:
Downsized U.S. Air Base Hits Azores Islands Hard - audio only
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This is the captured audio of Downsized U.S. Air Base Hits Azores Islands Hard http://live.wsj.com/#!B1BBA4F8-04F3-4039-9623-38B4D64B0703 on a black background. Just an experiment to compare YT's autocaptions with autotranscript given in http://live.wsj.com

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