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...steady recovery under way. We expect it to continue," says Scott Painter, CEO of TrueCar.com, an online car-buying guide. That bullish view is supported by a new round of positive economic signals. While consumer confidence remains shaky, underlying economic indexes, such as freight-car loadings and oil-rig counts, show that the overall economic picture is improving. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...
...dismay, Mitrokhin is far from certain that the government is afraid. "It amazes me," he says. "People are screaming for him to get out, but there is no sense that he is trying to reform or justify himself. He feels his own strength. If needed, he knows he can rig the next elections or carry out such a massive p.r. campaign that the people will love him again ... It's naive to think he will cave...
Until recently, however, marine scientists dismissed the idea of rogue waves as little more than a sailors' fantasy, with reason - there was little evidence to back it up. But in 1995, an oil rig in the North Sea recorded an 84-ft.-high (25.6 m) wave that appeared out of nowhere, and in 2000, a British oceanographic vessel recorded a 95-ft.-high (29 m) wave off the coast of Scotland. In 2004, scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA), as part of the MaxWave project, used satellite data to show that freak waves higher than 10 stories were rare...
Yegor Lupan calls himself "the most honest presidential candidate" in the country. In his campaign videos, he admits that he'll rig the results in order to win, and once in power, plans to embezzle state funds. Ukrainians also shouldn't expect a rise in pensions under his leadership, he says. "When you see my villas, you'll understand...
...dismantle the long-established private armed groups run by regionally powerful strongmen to protect their political and economic interests. Elections routinely become a dirty showdown when a clean sweep isn't anticipated, as armed goons intimidate rival candidates, cow voters and coerce Comelec officials with bribes and threats to rig votes...