Word: autumns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Almost lost amidst all the headlines about crisis aid to the automakers, the U.S. Department of Energy is now preparing to release $25 billion in loans appropriated last autumn to speed up the transition to more fuel efficient vehicles. The cash is supposed to be used for specific projects that increase fuel economy. Ford, for example, has applied to use some of the federal cash to convert an assembly plant in suburban Detroit from building trucks to building small cars and electric vehicles. The project costs $550 million and Ford hopes to use some of the DOE cash. GM, Chrysler...
...what's left to do? For the most part, scramble for childcare arrangements and surf the Internet for information. "I Googled 'CHD swine flu' to see if something came up," says Autumn Rose Reo, 28, whose 10-month-old son has congenital heart disease. Reo quickly found links to official public health sites and old-fashioned good advice from moms and dads of CHD children who had dealt with flu outbreaks in the past...
...Rattner] has the advantage of being an active and willing social climber but not being sleazy. He is very smooth." - Michael Wolff, in an excerpt from his book Autumn of the Moguls, ( New York...
...Germans sink into a period of national soul-searching. "Let's not kid ourselves, we're in the middle of a tough crisis, but we've now got a very good stimulus plan," Zu Guttenberg told Germany's Bild newspaper recently. "We expect the economy will pick up this autumn, at the very latest." The next few days will decide whether Opel will be part of that resurgence...
...would need endless patience, not to mention an excellent dictionary, to parse the intricacies of every single poem. That is not to mention the innumerable times when Nilsson’s extravagant similes and metaphors strain the limits even of poetic license. “They left like young autumn octopuses,” she writes of “The Infant Scholars.” Mere originality is not noteworthy. And “originality” so overtly forced is overbearing and dull. Even less convincing are the attempts scattered throughout “The Abbatoir?...