Hopes are high that gasoline prices will fall and the nascent labor market recovery will strengthen enough to increase consumer spending and economic growth.
If that came as the economy began to strengthen enough that the Federal Reserve decided to let interest rates start to creep up, could that create a rush to buy among those who fear rising prices and mortgage interest rates?
And three things have to happen at once, he said: roads and communications networks have to be built and government has to be able to deliver services, while security is strengthened enough for the work to go forward.
Senator Brown, a lieutenant colonel and a J.A.G. lawyer in the Army National Guard, recalled a visit to Walter Reed, where he "saw a soldier who lost both his legs, lost an arm and lost most of another arm, doing crunches, you know, to try to get his torso strengthened enough so he could still have a viable, you know, and fulfilling life".
Roberto Mancini is hoping Mario Balotelli (above) will also be fit for the bench at least and the 20-year-old has been putting in extra training in the hope that muscles around his damaged left knee will be strengthened enough for him to play a part.
I'm pleased to report that two more days of over ripe fruit and tissues soaked in sugar solution, saw the wing strengthen enough to get 'forget-me-not' (as Nancy named her) airborne and off in search of a mate and a hollyhock to lay her eggs on.
He said if the market strengthens enough, TI's profit margins could approach the record levels before the technology bust that began in 2000.
But if they can get to the the age of three, their windpipes have often strengthened enough to allow them to breathe well.
The Fed's decision to begin to ease its extraordinary stimulus efforts also indicates that the central bank believes that the US economy has finally strengthened enough that it no longer needs as much support.
That said, General Motors and Chrysler have made huge cost-cutting strides in recent years, and could be poised to make serious profits if car sales pick up and the stock market strengthens enough to boost their pension funds.
