Word: harders
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Signs of hard times getting harder in the U.S. are appearing every day. Home construction has dropped to its lowest level in roughly 60 years. Industrial production has fallen by rates unseen since the early 1970s. Consumer spending continues to decline month after month, even as the holiday season approaches...
...late week rally is harder to explain. The mini-boost has been accredited to better than expected quarterly results from tech companies like IBM and Google. Yet that good news Thursday coincided with figures showing that American industrial production in September dropped by 2.8% - the steepest fall since December, 1974. That came on the heels of statistics showing all-important consumer spending in the U.S. had tightened more than forecast. Meanwhile, despite government rescue plans and central bank rate cuts, there is little sign so far that frozen credit flows are thawing fast enough to get badly needed funds moving...
...economy in the long run but bad for an economy going into recession. While some large firms may be sitting on a bundle of cash, small firms depend on loans not just for investment but even for the working capital to keep going. That's going to be harder to come by. And the investment in real estate, which played such an important role in our modest growth of the past six years, has reached lows not seen in 20 years...
...stress.”In the final, Howard’s Canadian eight took the lead early and maintained it to the finish line. They crossed in 5:23.89, with Great Britain following behind with 5:25.11.“We were able to push the British a lot harder off the line than we expected,” Howard said. “We pushed them so hard we knew they could never come back. We were in front and we knew we were going to hold on, and for the rest of it we were just making sure...
...will welcome back senior Moritz Hafner, who spent the last year training with the Swiss national team.“The program has a completely different feel so far this year,” lightweight captain Jeff Overington said. “We’re working a lot harder, and the team is more motivated as a whole.”—Staff writer Lucy D. Chen can be reached at lucychen@fas.harvard.edu...