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...temperatures soar, the cool blue waters of a swimming pool can seem pretty inviting. But perhaps you should look twice before you take that dip. Thousands of Americans may get sick this summer from the unsanitary condition of their pool water, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The last thing you want to think about when you're swimming is what tiny creatures might be swimming beside you. But the fact is that any pool can be contaminated with parasites and bacteria. If you're not careful, you could find yourself in the emergency room with a badly upset...
...automotive industry consultants Autopolis. "I didn't think they'd last this long." Rover executives insist their five-year turnaround plan is working, and cite sales figures as evidence: the company moved 205,000 cars last year, exceeding its goal by 5,000. And while sales are projected to dip to 187,000 cars this year, the company says it expects that number to rebound to 210,000 in 2002 - helped in part by the launch this month of sportier MG versions of its three Rover models. Moreover, dealer sales are up 8% on a year-to-year basis...
...that Bush will raid the Medicare and Social Security trust funds to make up the revenue shortfalls. They claim Republicans will have to begin draining the Medicare trust fund this year, taking out $2 billion, and will start drawing from Social Security trust fund in 2003, first with a dip of $10 billion...
...Sorbonne. He eliminated his twang in favor of a precise, nearly British cadence, his Lone Star patois giving way to a flash, mockingly hip mixture of jazz lingo, eccentric abbreviations of names (as in "Sam" Beckett and "tip-top Tenn" Williams), the errant French phrase, and the occasional dip backward into down-home aphorisms...
...stands right now, we appear to be past the bust in the stock market - both the Dow and the NASDAQ are comfortably off their mid-March lows, and barring a new round of dire economic news, few market-watchers expect another big dip anytime soon. If that's the case, it's because companies have been furiously cutting costs and lowering production since winter in a struggle to return to some semblance of profitability, and investors, while not exactly rushing in - they've learned some lessons from the past year - have handed out some points for effort...