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...Then the Commerce Department reported that retail sales continued to squeak up, rising 0.2 percent in June after May's upwardly revised 0.4 percent hike. That was a soft number, but look at what kept the overall number in positive territory - auto sales. Those about to tighten their belts do not buy new cars. And the University of Michigan's respected consumer sentiment index rose to 93.7 percent in July, according to a Reuters report, compared with a reading of 92.6 percent in June...
...recent afternoon at Kao-hsiung's municipal graveyard, six or seven separate processions?each towing a musical band hired from one of the city's funeral companies?are vying for space at the crematorium. The musicians occasionally squeak out a desultory tune, unrecognizable over the noise from the other bands, but mostly they laugh and smoke cigarettes as the coffins are hoisted into the ovens. Women who have been employed to mourn for the deceased?a common practice in Taiwan?do so halfheartedly, whimpering rather than weeping. The funeral cloth is ragged, flowers are wilted, the hearses old and decrepit...
...markets were shuttered. Martin Luther King Day. Late afternoon. He was working. George Soros was at home in New York's Westchester County, inside a snow-wrapped, Gatsbyesque dream house, wrestling with the problem. It was as quiet as a bank vault, except for the occasional squeak of a chair, the ringing of the phone and Soros' soft, Hungarian-accented voice talking the problem through. He sipped at some hot tea, and when he put the cup down, that made some noise...
McDougall fought off illness to squeak out a win in the 200-yard backstroke. Crimson teammate Katie Wilbur touched second in the event...
...crucial scenes--don't spare Tori so much as Daddy. Gone from the pilot is Marcy's uncle--and along with him, a layer of show-biz complexity and tension. But remaining is Sloane's Marcy/Tori, a brilliant comic creation down to her slightest tic, squeak and emotion-punctuating chest thrust. Marcy is really Pointe's most likable character, a good-hearted dim bulb made a nervous wreck by gossip and the stress of looking impossibly good. (A bulimia scene, also cut, was a cruel but apt picture of the flip side of TV's hot-body worship.) Star...