The recovery in auto sales is one more sign the U.S. economy is picking up.
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Monday, data showed Americans' incomes picked up during December, but that more people chose to increase saving instead of spending, a sign the U.S. economy could remain in slow-growth mode this year.
The United States and the Soviet Union are expected to sign a U.S.-Soviet Maritime Agreement at the Summit which will establish a boundary-line between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Bering Straits.
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Apple Inc has cut orders for LCD screens and other parts for the iPhone 5 this quarter due to weak demand, the Nikkei reported on Monday, in a further sign the U.S. firm is losing ground to Asian smartphone rivals.
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Any sign of greater U.S. economic presence and understanding of Asia would be welcome.
Meanwhile, the Stutes have opted not to sign fellow former U's trialist Shane Tudor.
In another ominous sign that the U.S. economy is slowing, labor productivity decreased 0.3% in the second quarter, while first quarter productivity was revised from an increase to a negative reading and input costs rose.
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In another positive sign for the U.S. auto industry, General Motors took the top spot in China sales in 2011, displacing Japanese automaker Toyota to take a dominating share of what the Detroit automaker called its biggest international market.
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It is ironic that when our trade balance worsens, it has been a sign that the U.S. economy is stronger and foreign economies are weaker because growing domestic income stimulates our demand for imports while weaker foreign income growth lessens their appetite for U.S. goods and services.
It is also a sign that former U.S. friends might be rethinking their alliances in times when the United States is losing ground in Latin America due to the financial crisis and the emergence of leftist leaders that seem prone to engage in partnerships with similar political actors.
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Stocks put together a strong rally Friday, as investors pounced on word of lackluster second-quarter economic growth as a sign that the U.S. Federal Reserve was unlikely to raise rates at its Aug. 8 meeting, which would mark the first time in more than two years that it did not tighten monetary policy.
For instance, the U.N. sign came down outside the Tuzla base where the U.S. army will now take residence.
While the United States did not sign Kyoto, 825 U.S. cities and towns signed up to a climate protection agreement that embraced that protocol's goals.
In the latest sign of weakness in U.S. IT spending, the electronics distribution giant Avnet warned that results for its fiscal first quarter ended September will be well below previous expectations.
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This meeting is certainly a sign of what the U.S. Marines have been wanting for a while, and that's to have the security responsibility, if you like, pushed away from them and onto Iraqis.
One last hopeful sign: The Bloomberg U.S. Truckload Trucking Index, consisting of companies like Heartland Express, Knight Transportation and Swift Transportation is up 12% since hitting 52-week lows on reports of rising rates.
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This downsizing is already sign-posted by U.S. inability to compete in trade, where a single company in China employs a million people produces the vast share of products for Apple and components for Cisco, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Dell, Intel and Motorola.
"If this is the case, it is a worrying sign of deteriorating competitiveness for U.K. plc, " he said.
He said that despite the uncertainty, it was an encouraging sign that the Canadian and U.S. economies are generating positive job growth.
Small businesses represent over 98% of all U.S. businesses, produce over half of the U.S. GDP, and sign the FRONT of the paychecks of over half (70 million) of all U.S. workers.
Mitford told us that any sign of haste is non-U. Whenever possible, she said, she avoided airmail.
So far this year, however, there's little sign of seasonal flu in the U.S., where nearly all of the circulating flu virus is H1N1, or swine flu, Frieden said.
Vicky Gunderson, whose son killed himself in solitary, is asking people to sign an online petition telling the U.S. attorney general to ban solitary confinement for inmates 17 and younger.
The UnitedHealth deal is just the latest sign of "the globalization of the U.S. health-care sector, " he said.
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To qualify for coverage under the new fund, farmers and ranchers will need to sign up with the CME and submit U.S. tax documents, according to a CME spokeswoman.
U.N. reform was a contentious issue in the yearly budgeting process prior to the enactment of Helms-Biden, with Republicans regularly slowing down appropriations for a number of international efforts, and refusing to sign off on dues payments until the U.N agreed to reforms.
Did Obama sign with great gusto a law that turned U.S. CEOs into accountants in the form of Sarbanes-Oxley?
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The settlement requires all U.S. states to sign on before payment is made.
In a potentially telling sign, no Iraqi official appeared alongside the U.S. secretary of state at his Baghdad news conference.
Small business owners create over half of the U.S. economy and sign the front of over half of private paychecks.
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