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...than in Detroit, where car sales had climbed 3% during the first two months of this year only to slide 6.9% in the period from March 11 to March 20. "Obviously, this is not a boom," says Thomas Webb, chief economist for the National Automobile Dealers Association. Yet the modest overall pickup has left the Big Three with dwindling backlogs of unsold cars and busier production schedules. Ford plans just 12 weeks of plant shutdowns to trim inventories in the second quarter, compared with 36 weeks for the same period a year ago. The downtime could be extended, though...
...economy has some real strengths that could bolster the recovery. Inflation is running at a modest 3% pace and shows no signs of heating up anytime soon. Consumers and companies have seized the chance to lighten their debt loads by refinancing them at lower interest rates. Companies have also charged into the bull market for stocks to raise cash and pay off IOUs. Corporate America sold a record $55 billion worth of new shares last year to help clean up its balance sheet...
Levine admits her failure to offer innovative solutions. Her modest conclusion--that women and men must deal with the inevitable love-hate ambivalence between the sexes--may disappoint seasoned readers of gender-focused literature...
Celia lives up to his modest expectations when she torments him, leaving the coat rack or the vacuum cleaner in front of the door on her way out. But her antics have a motive--her love for Martin; she uses the booby traps to retaliate against his apathy toward her. They complement each other well. That is, until Andy (Russell Crowe) comes along...
...There should be an overwhelming presumption against having the long arm of government touch the human body and the human psyche in intimate ways," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. By that measure, modest intrusions with & clear benefits can pass the test. One example: because there is strong evidence that compulsory vaccination is an effective public health measure, the Supreme Court has approved it even for those with religious objections...