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...Even in Japan, the market appears to have limits. Kei sales in April fell 6.4% from a year earlier, the first drop in 16 months. The slump is unlikely to last, however. "Over the long term the minicar market is expected to grow continuously," says Tsuyoshi Mochimaru, an auto analyst for Deutsche Securities in Tokyo. When a country's population shrinks, apparently so do its cars...
...recording project in their Central Square apartment and Bishop Allen was born. Over the next two years, they recorded and released their debut album Charm School, which Rolling Stone called “charmed harmonic bliss” in a four-star review in 2003.EXTENDED PLAYERSAfter that, their sophomore slump set in. “We had been trying to record a full-length record and we were kind of lost and frustrated and it was not coming together,” says Rice of the two years following Charm School’s release. “We weren?...
...didn’t.”The result of the boat’s rally was a 0.6-second win over the Midshipmen, clocking in at 6:04.5 to Navy’s 6:05.1.“We’ve learned a lot from that slump we got in [last year],” Luff said. “It’s just a different mentality from last year, and so just different results.”The second varsity eight also turned the tables on Navy, which took the lead from the Crimson last year...
When the acclaimed novelist Gary Shteyngart appeared at the Brattle Theatre for a freewheeling discussion on Monday, the topics ranged from being paid in cheese for his first writing assignment to avoiding the sophomore slump to emigrating from the Soviet Union. He also read from his second novel, “Absurdistan,” which he called “the story of a very large man who destroys a very small country.” In “Absurdistan,” which was named one of the ten best books of the year...
...tried to open the door to that room, which was dark and silent inside. But a body was on the other side of the door, blocking the way. Each time she pushed the door, the body would slump forward, but she still couldn't get in. She leaned in and asked if everyone was OK. There was no answer. So she ran. She ran to her Resident Assistant's room, not realizing that it was her RA, Ryan "Stack" Clark, whose body had been blocking the door of 4040. With Clark not in his room, Donohue made an odd decision...