While the stock market was bouncing back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; between 2001 to 2004, typical household savings plummetednearly 25% and the median household debt rose by a third.
If the new department store would open by Thanksgiving, it will be attracting many holiday shoppers.
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The recent global boom in the market price for scrap steel and aluminum leads to a suddenrise in the theft of everyday metal objects like manhole covers, guard rails, and empty beerkegs.
With government funding for the arts dwindling, even major orchestras would feel thepressure of trying to meet their payroll and travel costs over the past several years.
Rust can deteriorate a steel pipe to such an extent that it will snap easily, as though it was a twig.
Until Antoine Lavoisier proved otherwise in the eighteenth century, many scientists hadbelieved that combustion released phlogiston, an imaginary substance whose propertieswere not fully understood.
Many analysts have recently predicted that democratic institutions will develop in China, as the growth of democracy has generally followed industrial development in other countries throughout the 20th century.
The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures toeradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, it will try to prevent theoutbreak from recurring in the future.
In 1860, the Philological Society launched its effort to create a dictionary more comprehensivethan the world had ever seen; although the project would take more than 60 years tocomplete, the Oxford English Dictionary had been born.
A recent study has cited overcomplexity, increasing worker mobility between companies, andpoor financial planning in estimating that less than half of eligible American workers hadcontributed the maximum amount to their employer-offered retirement plans.
Aerugo, also known as verdigris, is the green "bloom" visible on many copper items, and is produced, like iron rust, over the course of time by the exposure of the metal to the oxygen inthe atmosphere.
Though most paper currency was at one time backed by fixed assets such as gold or silver, itnow derives its purchasing power from a declaratory fiat of the issuing government.
Sleeping pills had been showing up with regularity as a factor in traffic arrests, sometimesinvolving drivers who later claim that they have no memory of getting behind the wheel afteringesting the pills.
Although he resisted the assignment, T. E. Lawrence, later known as Lawrence of Arabia,successfully led an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
Though he had had success broadcasting his controversial radio program on highly regulatedterrestrial airwaves, Howard Stern opted out of terrestrial broadcasting in favor of the lessregulated satellite radio medium.
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