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On virtually every count, the report was awful; even last month's reduction in the unemployment rate to 5.7%, from 5.9% in November, was, on close inspection, less than unalloyedly bullish.
Moreover, as we diffidently suggested last week, despite all the happy noise from the Institute of Supply Management, manufacturing remains enfeebled: another 26,000 jobs were lost in that benighted sector in December.
The state appealed to the state Supreme Court, which overturned the Superior Court decision last October.
Lewis said this was the last straw.
Jean assures us that the dimwitted ways to capture a Chap that were offered by last century's "The Rules" just didn't work, or else everybody would already be married.
There are a million stories in the Naked City, but, at last count, only 63 jazz clubs.
Legendary pianist Cecil Taylor has long been a regular and, before new management took over last year, you could count on bartenders to regale you with stories about the leonine composer.
Ill-health (he collapsed on stage at Wembley last year) forced the postponement of the UK dates of his alleged Last World Tour but, although this rescheduled concert suffered from a lack of raw energy, Meat put as much as he could still offer into his overblown performance.
Meat himself was an incorrigible ham, draining every last drop of pathos and melodrama from each scenario, as if to make up for any physical incapacity.
Joan Baez was bumped off by Harold Shipman last week.
Contrary to most fans' assumptions, their love affair lasted only three months.
"I played the whole last scene as Nina alone, without a Konstantin present," she recalled, "and I came offstage in a daze." Bakker was arrested last month in Crab Park on Vancouver's waterfront.
The judges gave the warning as they published their reasons of quashing the murder conviction of Angela Cannings, a mother who was finally cleared last month of killing her two baby sons.
Cannings' case comes after a similar court ruling last year which overturned the murder conviction against Sally Clarke, a solicitor accused of killing her two young sons and the acquittal of another mother, Trupti Patel, on charges of murdering her three babies.
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