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The NYT and LAT fronts report that Planned Parenthood and several doctors have brought a private federal civil suit against the proprietors of an anti-abortion Web site that suggests abortion providers are like Nazis and groups the names and faces of some doctors providing the procedure on a Wanted Poster-style list it calls the "Deadly Dozen."
The townspeople find the proprietors invasive and insufferably haughty; the owners, in turn, call the locals homophobes and rubes.
NIPA personal income includes wages and salaries; interest and dividend income; rental income;2 proprietors' income; government transfer payments, such as Social Security, veterans, and unemployment benefits; and employer contributions to pension plans as well as group health and life insurance plans.
The proprietors' explanation: We're inundated with responses and will be up and running shortly.
You couldn't say the same of a CLOSED sign--if it was off, would that mean proprietors lurking in the back waiting to make a sale?