Word: steams
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...Practice, for one. "We never had a housing crisis," says Pittsburgh's controller, Michael Lamb. "We already weathered that storm." Foreclosures declined 20% for two months compared with a year ago. Home prices are relatively steady. When the economy began to pick up steam again after 2003, Pittsburgh was a city with affordable housing, great parks and recreation, rich cultural and sports scenes, and surviving industry clusters that were globally competitive--a helpful thing when recession returns. "We've done a really good job at coming to terms with how to manage. Our weaknesses 25 years ago led to strength...
...Crimson opens the year calmly enough on November 15th at the Binghamton Open in Johnson City. But, the schedule quickly picks up steam, as the grapplers prepare to battle six teams from last year?...
...Lesbianism was on the airwaves and in the air this summer. It was a neurotic time: McCain and Obama were getting snipey, the Russian government was getting imperial, and Fannie and Freddie were getting killed. We needed something fun, something slightly dangerous, something to blow off a little steam. So we kissed a girl...
...Piracy declined in subsequent centuries, thanks to increasingly vigilant militaries and the development of the steam engine. But amid a drop in naval patrols and a boom in international trade following the end of the Cold War, it has flourished anew - particularly in narrow choke points such as Asia's Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden, which links the Red and Arabian seas. Buoyed by fast boats, fearsome weaponry and high-tech communications gear, pirates carried off 263 reported heists in 2007 - 28% of which occurred in the treacherous waters off Nigeria and Somalia, where vast coastlines...
...Sarah Palin's post-convention bounce dissipates, an ongoing conservative revolt in Arizona has been gaining steam. It probably won't cost McCain the state. But 26 years after the Republican was sent to Congress from Arizona, the schism within the state GOP points to lingering doubts that the right wing - both inside and outside Arizona - has about McCain's motives, methods and temperament. And in an unusually brutal state primary season that ended Sept. 2, suspicion about the Republican nominee led the conservative grass roots to air accusations of persecution and dirty politics...