The main culprit was the sickly housing market: although consumer spending has held up better than expected, the construction of homes has collapsed.
The sickly housing market was socked with another dose of bad news on Wednesday when the Commerce Department reported that new home sales fell in January to the lowest level since record-keeping began in 1963.
America's industrial production rose by 1.3% in October, reversing only part of the 3.7% drop in September, when hurricanes had disrupted oil and gas production.The already sickly American housing market took a turn for the worse.
Only the two chestnut trees outside our house, sickly for years, would be forbidden to add their rust-afflicted foliage.
Lank and pale, Mr. Merhar is not the sweaty, grizzled type you might expect after years in expat purgatory; he looks at once well preserved and sickly, like a beach house shut-in.
America's housing market remains sickly.
Growing up in a terrace house in York; the sickly sweet smell of the air from the nearby chocolate factory; and the cold, outside loo.
Set during the 1960's as Moss, one of eight siblings, grows up hungry and sickly in a succession of ramshackle houses, the book is a Deep South cousin to Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes".
With a take-off sound effect, his hyperactive set dominated by pounding house beats, shimmering synth and sickly sweet vocal samples rolled out the carpet for the PC Music's eclectic characters.
