These numbers are particularly heartening when you consider where we were a year ago, with an economy in freefall.

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Left to conjecture, Wall Street analysts had a number of theories, none of them particularly heartening for investors who held onto their stock.

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Particularly heartening is the prospect that the Committee on the Present Danger will, once again, serve as a vehicle for engaging sober-minded Democrats like Senator Lieberman, Director Woolsey and former Rep. Steven Solarz (D-NY), in the bipartisan advocacy of robust national security policies.

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