"Builders are making precious little headway in clearing inventories, despite generous incentives and aggressive price cutting," wrote Richard Moody, chief economist at Mission Residential in Austin, Tex.
Banks are more aggressively cutting costs, writing off nonperforming loans and selling their stockholdings.
He made his living as the clerk of district court, and left it with no regret to embark on a long and happy retirement, walking two miles a day, reading history hour after hour, listening to Beethoven and Schubert and Bach, cutting wood, writing the history of his family.
Henry also enjoys going into the TV production booth on the night to see "Richard's stressed-out but joyful face as he orchestrates the evening, cutting things, writing things into the autocue, getting cross when he thinks the messages need to be clearer.
He could make an even bigger statement by cutting Favre, writes Jason Cole on Yahoo.com, but for now has decided just to give Leslie Frazier a long-deserved chance as head coach.
A girl who says she cannot refrain from cutting herself wrote: "Everyone thinks that because I am a 'surgeon's daughter' and because we have money that my life is perfect.
My child, with his imperfect cutting and writing skills, is most certainly enough.
Much of that cheating is in the form of not attributing others' writing, cutting and pasting sentences from the web – but this is only part of the story.
In the recent quarter, Dow Jones took a charge of $10.4 million, or 12 cents a share, for cutting jobs and writing down assets related to its WSJ.com Web site.
The slowdown was gradual, and can be explained mostly by the greater length of the stories he was able to do and by the care he was putting into them, cutting and pasting, writing and rewriting.
