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...networks to energy-efficiency retrofits, all designed to save or create 3 million to 4 million jobs by the end of 2010. Obama has said speed is his top priority because the faster Washington injects cash into the financial bloodstream, the better it stands to help avert a multiyear slump with double-digit unemployment and deflation. But he also wants to use the stimulus to advance his long-term priorities: reducing energy use and carbon emissions, cutting middle-class taxes, upgrading neglected infrastructure, reining in health-care costs and eventually reducing the budget deficits that exploded under George W. Bush...
...Quinnipiac at the TD Banknorth Garden on Friday night. “We came back in the third, but I think it’s just an ongoing story,” junior Alex Biega said. “We’re in a little bit of a slump right now. The puck didn’t bounce our way sometimes, but at the end of the game, I think Quinnipiac just capitalized on their opportunities.” With the score tied at two apiece, a simple swing in momentum turned the tide in the Bobcats?...
...night (3-for-9 from distance), she has come on of late, scoring 11 points in each of her last two contests. “Every shooter has a stretch of time where they’re just not feeling things—they’re in a slump,” Finelli said of Matera. Finelli led the team with 13 points and eight rebounds. Emma Markley’s six-point night ended her streak of double-digit scoring at 10 games. “I liked the team determination,” Crimon coach Kathy Delaney...
...slump continues. The Harvard men’s hockey team fell to No. 8 Princeton, 5-1, Saturday night at the Baker Rink in the rivals’ first contest since last season’s ECAC playoff championship in which the Tigers (13-2-0, 8-1-0 ECAC) seized the title. The weekend’s losses extend the Crimson (4-10-2, 4-5-2) winless streak to 10 games, paralleling last season’s 10-game dry spell during the winter months. “The last couple years, we’ve gone through...
Researchers predict the region's economic recovery will last at least seven years - far beyond the expected end of the national recession sometime in 2010. Even so, there will be some downward pull from the U.S. economic slump. In 2009, for instance, they expect some 8,000 jobs to be added here, a figure that will drop to 6,500 jobs in 2010. "While the rest of the United States is in a deeper recession than anyone expected, we're certainly in a better place - we are an economy that's still looking for workers," says Janet Speyrer, associate dean...