Pittsburgh has always produced an inordinate number of N.F.L. players, but its quarterback output borders on the freakish.
It has lasted, however, thanks to the efforts of collectors, whose devotion to P&P and its output borders on the insane: the Sources sleevenotes feature tales of collectors wading waist-deep through water because they'd heard a rare P&P single might be lurking in a flooded basement.
Offshore wells produce a significant proportion of the oil and gas output of bordering countries.
G.D.P. measures total national economic output within United States borders.
Economists had expected GDP growth, which measures total goods and services output within U.S. borders, to be revised up to a 2.4percentt pace.
The reading suggested a slightly faster expansion in output north of the border than across the UK as a whole over the month.
The bank said increased activity at service providers lay behind the expansion in output north of the border, with goods production continuing to fall.
Factory output north of the border increased for a second straight month in May, while the rate of job creation at Scottish manufacturers also accelerated.
There was a further slowdown in the rate of growth of manufacturing output north of the border, but it remained "at a level consistent with a solid pace of expansion overall".
Fighting has already reached oil fields, near Sudan's border, cutting output by 45,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 200,000 bpd.
