Word: havener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...economic recovery under way. But the numbers paint a confusing picture. GDP grew 3.9% in the first quarter, and corporate profits rose 1.7%. Most important, payrolls have grown by 1.3 million jobs since January. Consumer confidence is up. But job growth slowed in June, and the new ones haven't been enough to meet the supply of 8.2 million out-of-work Americans. The unemployment rate hasn't budged from 5.6%. Wages, which grew 2.2% in May, aren't keeping up with inflation...
...SETUP In case you haven't met before--this is the 10th book in the series--Stephanie Plum, based in Trenton, N.J., is a bounty hunter with a great sense of humor that balances out her bad attitude and worse luck. This time around, Stephanie--through no fault of her own--is the sole witness to a robbery, which makes her a target for the gang of bad guys who perpetrated it. At least it gives her an excuse to turn to her ridiculously good-looking fellow bounty hunter Ranger for help...
...have to accept we haven't found them and we may not find them." BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, stalwart defender of the war in Iraq, on the failure to locate any weapons of mass destruction...
...Summer Olympics haven't even begun, and world records are already falling. U.S. swimming phenom MICHAEL PHELPS last week destroyed his own world record in the 400 individual medley at the U.S. Olympic team trials for swimming in Long Beach, Calif., thus launching his assault on Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals in a single Olympics...
...argues that the current cease-fire, flimsy as it is, serves to keep the lid on. "If we went to war there, we could lose thousands of people," he says. "Or we can have peace and capture the insurgents as they come and go from their safe haven." That, he says, is all the government...