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...consumer spending. From this standpoint, the outlook for stocks is even more promising. Companies have rigorously cut costs and positioned themselves for a rapid rise in earnings once top-line growth resumes. Annualized productivity growth in the second and third quarters of 2009 averaged 8.2%, the highest six-month average in 40 years and unprecedented for an economy just emerging from a severe recession. Indeed, third-quarter profits, now being reported, are running well ahead of estimates...
...arrests or citations last night, city police might not be so accommodating. Yet students who chose to return to future sleep-outs planned in Boston will have to do so knowing that Harvard’s standard protocol stipulates that any student who is arrested is subject to a six-month mandatory leave and that the university has declined to state whether it would apply the same standard to those arrested while sleeping...
...Harvard students, [arrest] really is a serious threat,” Beatty said. He explained that the most common Administrative Board sentence for student arrest is a mandatory six-month leave...
Maislinger first publicly voiced this sentiment in 1977 at age 23, when he proposed replacing his compulsory six-month service in the Austrian military with a year working in a Holocaust Memorial Museum...
...McDonald's franchises grew swiftly: by the end of the 1960s, there were more than 1,000 across the U.S. The first international franchise opened in 1967 in British Columbia, and was followed by another in Costa Rica later that year. From there, the chain spread steadily: over a six-month period in 1971, Golden Arches popped up on three new continents, as stores launched in Japan, Holland and a suburb of Sydney. A Brazilian McDonald's opened in 1979, bringing Ronald McDonald to South America for the first time. McDonald's reached its sixth (and, barring a sub-Arctic...