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...After a spurt of optimism following the election, U.S. consumer confidence, as measured by the New York City-based Conference Board, has dropped for three straight months. Experts fear that unless the numbers turn around the economic recovery could stall...
...spurt was sparked by a combination of Northeastern's quickness and a couple of Harvard turnovers...
...quick spurt keyed by junior forward Scott Sytulek made the score 58-44 with 13 minutes left...
Most economists agree that the U.S. recovery is far weaker than the recent 2.7% GDP growth spurt indicates. "That was a nice number, but not sustainable," says Lea Tyler, manager of U.S. economic forecasting for Oxford Economics in Pennsylvania. The results included a temporary bulge in defense orders and a consumer shopping spree that blossomed in July but quickly faded in August. Moreover, Tyler said, the mild drop in unemployment from 7.5% in September to 7.4% reflected a shrinking labor force as students returned to the classroom and discouraged workers stopped looking for jobs...
...first spurt of renewal was in the Middle Ages, creating the Gothic city. Then came a slump, as the ascendancy of Castile and the shift of trade from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic thrust Barcelona into a 200-year depression, from which it began to recover by industrializing only at the end of the 18th century...