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...carmakers keep it up? The industry's recent history is well-told by now. Zero-percent financing deals, fat incentives and a burst of patriotism produced a spectacular bounce-back for the industry from the post-Sept. 11 flatline, (helping us speed through the recession in the process). That spike softened quickly, but suddenly the sales resurgence in April, after a fall in March, had investors and economists alike thinking that maybe, just maybe, this recovery might not be so lousy after...
Primm has been an offensive fixture for Harvard ever since his spectacular freshman year, when he finished with 38 goals and 14 assists...
...That note fit in rather neatly with the one-word recovery forecast that's been settling on the tongues of investors all week: anemic. Alan Greenspan is largely responsible, writing in the Wednesday-released "beige book" that yes, the recovery was coming, but it might not be anything spectacular. The lack of business spending is particularly worrisome, the consumers' part hard to take for granted, the labor market still "slack" (meaning unemployment may stay up for a while). Energy costs are staying up, and manufacturers' willingness to upgrade their equipment remains limited...
...preferred cooking method would probably have been boiling: this Maori village, home to about 70, sits among geothermally heated pools and is periodically sprayed by two spectacular geysers. These days, locals sell freshly boiled sweet corn, plucked from the simmering pools and naturally seasoned by sulfur dioxide...
...other end of the field, sophomore goalkeeper Jake McKenna continued his stellar play with 19 saves, many of them spectacular...