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...latest sales trends don't augur well for such vehicles. Sales of some full-size SUVs, such as the Ford Excursion and Expedition and Lincoln Navigator, fell during the first four months of the year, with a sharp drop in April, while sales of GM's mighty Hummer H2 tanked 25%. Smaller SUVs and crossover models are gaining momentum. "The mix is shifting down, and that's something we haven't seen in quite a while," Girsky says. GM plans to temporarily halt assembly lines at an SUV plant near Oklahoma City, Okla., this week--one of the few times...
...everybody in the math community believes in the Putnam as an augur of future greatness. "Many think it's a frivolous exercise," says Kevin Lacker, one of last year's winners. "Doing well on the Putnam and doing good math research are two different tasks that take two different kinds of intelligence." In other words, there's hope for us all. Even a genius can flunk a math test--and sometimes that's a good thing. "If you're someone who only likes getting 100% on everything you do, you're going to find the Putnam quite distressing," Vakil says...
...Dehai and Hai Hongmei's matrimonial bed is laid with a thick quilt embroidered with the characters for "double happiness," words meant to augur good fortune for just-married Chinese couples. This should be a room of joy and hope, but Liu's mother doesn't want anyone investigating too closely. "Please," she says, "do not speak of this room." The marriage of Liu and Hai is a subject of shame, for they are not just husband and wife; they are also first cousins...
...best, if the LEI drops three straight months, it's supposed to augur a recession. But this is only the first one. So what you get is what the prevailing view at the Fed is - the economy is weak. But there's no recession at the moment, and there's not likely...
...last one to chart its own course, pursuing American interests and setting its own priorities whether the rest of the world goes along or not. And that could mean a reorientation in the Atlantic relationship. On a range of security and foreign-policy issues, the future seems to augur continental drift, if not an outright split. Though bound together by a military alliance and $1 billion in daily trade, Europe and the United States are increasingly marching to different beats?and there will be moments when the Bush Administration will pump up the volume. ?The new administration has experienced people...