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...Crimson’s already-sputtering offense. When a team with a relatively impotent offense outshoots you, 9-8, in the first period, it should indicate concern. When it does the same by a tally of 10-3 in the second, you can be officially declared in an offensive slump. The team’s penalty problems, then, hurt not only the defense but also the offense, which was struggling to generate scoring chances even when it had five...
...revealed that the U.S. gross domestic product grew 7.2 percent over the summer, the fastest pace since 1984. The country also saw a 6.6 percent jump in consumer spending during the same quarter. Some economists are saying this could mean the economy is finally pulling out of its slump, but naysayers point to the fact that employment fell by 165,000 jobs during the quarter of growth and that the job market does not yet seem to be improving. What do you think? Does the growth in productivity signal an economic turnaround, or is this just a false indicator...
...economy's slump began under that sorry so-called President Bill Clinton ... you can't blame the economy's slip on a President. If anyone is to blame it would have to be the terrorists, the rip-off artists in huge companies (i.e. Enron, Tyco, Martha Stewart) ... and leftist reporters and media such as Time Magazine. Wade Spruill Birmingham...
Jones, explaining the Democrats’ slump, presented data from a recent New York Times column that said voters identifying themselves as members of the Democratic Party were down from 49 percent during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, to about 32 percent today...
...cheesy, because since he opened his first store in Houston 30 years ago, Men's Wearhouse has become the largest men's clothing retailer in the U.S., a $1 billion company with 507 locations. It has outlasted dozens of competitors and survived casual Fridays and a slump in suit sales to show surprising growth this year. Now Zimmer plans to make Men's Wearhouse a $5 billion company that also sells sports clothes and designer wear, rents tuxedos and operates dry cleaners...