The growth sector for the last quarter century has been light trucks, a category in which fuel efficiency has deteriorated over time.
Then we have Brazil, with first quarter sales of cars and light and heavy commercial vehicles up 4.7%, to 852, 000.
Although Thomas Weisel Partners analyst Tom Roderick called the third-quarter outlook a "touch light", he had a more temperate take on the company's results.
In Soho, London's red light and party quarter, a bohemian and often gay crowd of painters, writers and musicians -- amongst them Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Daniel Farson and Colin MacInnes -- delighted in scandalising conventional mores with their hedonistic antics.
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U.S. economic growth comes up light in the second quarter with GDP numbers coming in well below forecasts.
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Spirits are high, and bonuses have been handed out (for those lucky enough to see them) and deadlines are light through the end of the quarter.
"The sale of W New Orleans-French Quarter helps advance Starwood's asset-light strategy, as we continue to pursue opportunities to sell owned real estate at the right time to the right owners, " said Simon Turner, Starwood's president of global development.
Other questions were on access to and use of disability services by black and minority ethnic disabled people, careers advice in schools, and proposed action to take in the light of the house building data for the quarter to March 2012.
Starbucks posted second quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, hitting profit estimates and coming in light in terms of revenue.
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Especially in light of the recession-caused spike in spending in the last quarter of the Bush administration (people often forget that TARP was signed into law by President Bush in October 2008), it is more meaningful to compare annual average spending amounts across administrations rather than the dollar increase from the start to the finish.
The maker of light emitting diodes, or LED, drivers, issued a second-quarter warning, lowering its revenue projection.
Douglas Sipkin, an analyst at Wachovia, said that while Merrill's third-quarter and future capital raise would be yet another burden, he believes there is light at the end of the tunnel.
In light of Hassan's new position, Schering will delay the announcement of its first quarter results, which were expected on Tuesday.
Cosmologists reckon that at least a quarter of the universe is composed of dark matter, a mysterious substance that neither emits nor absorbs light.
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