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...This could be a reasonably big deal, if anything untoward comes out. As it is, the Street?s expecting a slight trimming of inventories (good), a slightly-smaller-than-last-month decrease in production (good, I suppose) and a tiny bump in capacity utilization. That?s good too, but at the microscopic increments expected we won?t be cleaning up tickertape at the closing bell. Still, a favorable trend is better than the other kind...
...keep the hard-edged observations in her performances distanced by satire. But a sharp viewer can find them. Even in Legally Blonde, which spins her screen character so genially, a slight chill invades the watcher--all that shrewdness, all that drive devoted to winning not particularly well-considered gains...
...CAFE standards: A arduously negotiated, ever-so-slight increase in SUV and light-truck fuel efficiency did make it into the Republican bill, which requires Detroit to set standards that would save 5 billion gallons of oil between 2004 and 2010, but doesn?t specify those standards (most number-crunchings have it at a measly extra...
...though I have no Mr. Right Now to call my very own, there are the occasional flirtatious encounters with cute guys who didn’t expect the campus to be so big. They’re easy to spot, really: big brown puppy-dog eyes and a slight crease in their bronzed brows. Nothing that an apple-cheeked rising senior with an infectiously loud laugh and a general idea where 51 Brattle St. is can’t fix. I figure if one of them doesn’t ask for the “special after-hours tour?...
...nature seems to be developing?there is considerable evidence to suggest we are approaching a stability." And not least, the defensive "As a consequence of the policy actions of the FOMC, some of the stringent financial conditions evident late last year have been eased?most anticipate at least a slight strengthening of real activity later this year." And of course the long-term prospects are as rosy as ever - the last words of his prepared remarks were "solid economic growth over time that benefits...