Word: strongly
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...Hughes' original script had a different ending than the script he shot, one in which Molly Ringwald's character ended up with Duckie, her geeky best friend. Byrne Fields liked that ending better. She saw the movie with her dad, who was touched by the strong father-daughter relationship. Hughes liked that. He told her he was happy to have made a movie that brought people together. With teenagers, that's not an easy thing...
...spend money at a healthy pace. Auto sales, helped significantly by government subsidies for small-car purchases, hit an all-time record in April and will easily surpass those in the U.S. this year. Overall, retail sales in China this year are up 16%. (Read "Is China's Economy Strong Enough To Save the World...
...droves. The country's once shaky financial sector was cleaned up several years ago - in 2007, nonperforming loans amounted to just 3% of total bank assets - and vehicles set up to deal with China's last banking crisis still exist. In other words, Beijing thinks its financial system is strong enough to handle the risks of its very loose monetary policy...
...police commissioner by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, he started the policing techniques that are credited with starting the Big Apple's dramatic reduction in crime. Villaraigosa told TIME: "When I first got elected, everybody said that we were going to be like him and Giuliani because we were both strong and we were both, as people say, we weren?t shy in front of a camera and the idea was that we would be fighting for the spotlight, but we formed a partnership and it?s been a very successful one that we?re both very proud...
Bratton would not single anyone out, simply saying "there?s a very talented and very strong bench here, the leadership team I?ve surrounded myself with, a number of whom are capable of stepping in as chief of police." The word on the street is that his three assitant chiefs, Jim McDonnell, Sharon Papa and Earl Paysinger may be in the running along with the well-regarded head of detectives, Deputy Chief Charlie Beck...