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...INDICATORS fits and starts More mixed signals from the U.S. economy. Analysts were pleasantly surprised by 1.9% first quarter GDP growth and corporate-profits that crept up 1%. But new jobless claims stayed high, at 424,000, and durable goods orders dropped 2.4% in April...
...water also crept under the fire door and pooled in the next door room of Olivia Jennings’06 and Sarah Kennifer’06, and seeped through the floor, creating a sort of indoor deluge for downstairs neighbors John Ames’06 and Pat Dowd?...
...crept around the world,” she said, “it’s a message of hope...
That market has enjoyed a little-noticed recovery over the past two years, as the price of uranium has crept back to more than $10 a lb. from its all-time, inflation-adjusted low of $7.10 at the end of 2000. Demand for uranium has risen steadily over the past decade, as stockpiles have dwindled and nuclear-power plants have increased their output. The U.S. nuclear-power industry generated a record 778 billion kW-h in 2002. That year marked the third consecutive all-time annual high, and experts estimate that 2003 will continue the streak...
Sometimes the movement was rather pedestrian, sometimes elements of ethnic dance crept in; there was even a fair share of wild sprinting across the stage...