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...hitting pavement. Pliable rubber making contact with asphalt doesn't seem as if it would produce a lot of noise but in fact it does, and in a lot of ways. As any spot on the tire strikes the highway, it hits with the thunk of a little rubber hammer. Also, the patch of tire that's in contact with the ground at any instant--the so-called tread block--can squeak like a sneaker on a gym floor and pop like a suction cup when it pulls back off the surface. Air pumping through tire grooves makes noise...
...would make a dent. But rates now are at 5.5% or so, and long-term studies show that this is a normal mortgage rate. We don't expect housing starts to keep growing. But the publicly traded builders are taking market share from the neighborhood man with a hammer. That has become their edge, and these are companies that sell for nine times earnings...
...denying the difference in knowing that on any given day, the dish is his. To him, there’s absolutely nothing better than the pleasure which comes with managing a game from behind the plate—the joy of dropping two fingers and calling for the hammer on a 3-2 count...
...European Union security officials meet in Madrid on Friday to hammer out a strategy - a meeting in which the U.S. won't be participating. That's natural, of course, in that the U.S. is not part of the European Union. But it may also signal an intention by the Europeans to forge a more effective strategy for countering the al-Qaeda movement, and challenging the U.S. to rethink its own approach...
...Japan's youth crime wave when he decapitated an 11-year-old boy in Kobe, Japan; after spending more than six years in a reformatory; in Tokyo. The killer, whose name has never been released, also admitted to bludgeoning a 10-year-old girl to death with a hammer. Upon his release, a lawyer who represented the killer said he "has grown up a lot in a short period of time...