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The country’s deterioration in sports is apparent in the SEA Games, a 10-nation multi-event biennial competition where the Philippines finished third in its debut in 1977, took second overall as host in 1991 and first overall also as host in 2005.

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After the graduation party, painful reality sets in: there are too many graduates and too few jobs. Last year the country posted its highest unemployment rate in a decade, with nearly 74,000 people losing their jobs, according to the Department of Labor and Employment. Asia is recovering from a three-year-old economic crisis, but the pace of recovery in this country is not fast enough to absorb the available manpower. This summer an additional 373,399 graduates joined the country's work force. Many of them will find themselves unemployed or underemployed. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1193631 [AuthorName] => by Editorial [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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