The mastermind of a, quote, systematic, sustained and highly professionalized teamrun doping conspiracy. Nbc news has learned that in a conversation the 41yearold armstrong said, quote, it was just the way the game was played at the time, so it was a level playing field. Before he interviewed with oprah, armstrong visited the headquarters of the Cancer Foundation he founded. There he told the livestrong staff, quote, im sorry, and apologized for letting them down. But did not give them a full admission. People at livestrong have been pressuring him for a little while now to minimize this damage. Reporter damage years of lying and cheating has done to an organization and to the legacy of a sports icon. Kurt gregory, nbc news. So what about the potential legal and financial fallout ahead for the athlete worth an estimated 100 million . The New York Times is reporting armstrong is in talks with the Justice Department to possibly testify in a federal whistleblower case against several powe
can you give us your assessment of the imt pact of the mild winter weather and going forward, i think you said last month that some of the recent job gains reflected a catchup from outside cuts right after the recession. given those two things, what kind of job growth can we expect? well, the weather issue reflects how difficult it can be to make real-time effect of the economy. it probably brought forward some of the hiring so that it made perhaps january and february artificially strong and march artificially weak. it probably affected construction. manufacturing. there were probably things affected by the warm weather that we had this winter. and we re doing our best to try to adjust for that. we re also looking at some of the seasonality issues because of the unusually large recession in 2008 and 2009. so, again, that makes the data harder to interpret. i advanced the hypothesis that the increase in employment that we ve seen in the last five, six months may be to some