Word: dipped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back of such tales, conventional economic thinking says, dangerous speculative bubbles are built. And these days not much - aside from the possibility of a double-dip recession in the U.S. - has more economists, international investors, hedge-fund managers and bankers tearing their hair out than the deceptively simple question, Is China's property market a bubble? (See pictures of Shanghai...
...articles I submitted required some additional work before they got posted. My deliberate haste and sloppiness with Demand stories have led copy editors to give me, on a five-point scale, a pretty crummy 3.5 for grammar and 3.7 for research. If my scores dip too low, Demand will banish me from the system. (See 25 websites you can't live without...
Despite blistering snowstorms and a dip in consumer confidence, retail sales rose strongly in February, signaling that recession-weary shoppers may finally be opening their wallets. Yet experts quickly noted that consumers have not convincingly abandoned their penny-pinching ways and likely won't for a long time...
...office is expected to take a dip Sunday night - at least Hollywood hopes it does, since the industry has labored frantically to jack up the Oscar ceremony's sagging ratings. The show's producers have packed the on-camera guest list with young stars from The Twilight Saga and So You Think You Can Dance. More important, the Motion Picture Academy expanded its list of Big Picture nominees from five to 10, hoping that more hits would be included, since the highest-rated Oscar shows in the past 15 years were when the big prizes went to the megahits Titanic...
Those fears were abundantly evident in a recent Conference Board report showing that consumer confidence took an unexpected dip, sliding 11 points in February, and the present-situation index, which measures consumers' opinions on current economic conditions, plunged to its lowest level in 27 years. "People are scared," says Herzberg. (See the worst business deals...