Word: roughs
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...athletic shoes have not taken as hard a hit. In fact, after the $17.5 billion U.S. athletic footwear market saw flat sales in '08, sneakers are actually up 6% so far this year, according to SportsOneSource, a research firm. Further, while the overall golf business is stuck in the rough - U.S. equipment sales, for example, have dropped 9% this year - spikes have sold relatively well. In the United States, the $500 million golf shoe market was actually up 3% in 2008, and it has risen 1% this year...
...their last six races.“There was a pretty steady wind out on the river,” Palmer said. “It was a little different than our normal situation out there, but we were able to take advantage of being home. We had a rough Saturday but were able to compete well on Sunday after bonding over Zoe’s My 3 Sons (some breakfast meal at a restaurant) on Saturday night.”Sophomore skipper John Stokes and junior crew Michelle Konstadt took third overall in the B division, finishing with...
...thrill for us, after playing in front of some pretty rough crowds,” Walsh said. “It was so nice to hear the ‘Let’s go Harvard’ chants...
...dooms health-care reform. His legislative style is a throwback to the days when it was not so unusual for the two parties to work together in the Senate. Baucus' closest friend in the chamber is the Finance Committee's ranking Republican, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, an equally rough-hewn legislator, with whom he has traded the chairmanship three times since 2001. The two meet at least once a week and boast a rare degree of cooperation. "As far as working together and trying to find solutions," says Grassley, their aides function as "basically one staff...
...Worse still is the availability of credit in the economy in general. According to the New York Times, "By one estimate, as much as $1.9 trillion of lending capacity - the rough equivalent of half of all the money borrowed by businesses and consumers in 2007, before the recession struck - has been sucked out of the system." Based on these figures the government's programs have yet to reach the American public...