The car's styling forgave a multitude of other sins, including a penny-pinched interior, mediocre fuel economy and a rather heavy, trembling, fundamentally unathletic chassis that no amount of spring rates nor summer tires could mediate.
Prof Ajit Lalvani, director of the Tuberculosis Research Unit at Imperial College London said there is a spring peak in rates of tuberculosis which have been attributed to low levels of vitamin D.
The spring brought rising subprime delinquency rates and the ensuing failures of subprime lenders.
Some economists believe that it will cut interest rates again before the spring.
The iShares FTSE NAREIT Residential Plus Capped Index Fund (REZ) has doubled in value since the spring of 2009, despite historically high rates of foreclosures and short sales.
Stack says the biggest threat to stocks will come from interest rates, but that danger, he says, is not imminent, with the Federal Open Market Committee all but assuring the market that rates will not rise until spring 2004 at the earliest.
Yields on ten-year Treasuries were higher in the spring of 2004, before he started raising short-term rates, than they are now, nine rate hikes later.
The Bank of Japan expanded its asset purchases this spring and a number of other central banks have cut interest rates, including the European Central Bank and Reserve Bank of Australia.
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They follow a seasonal pattern reflecting the academic year, with lower rates in the autumn followed by a gradual rise in spring and early summer to a peak in late summer.
With the bond market all but assuming a rate hike will come by summer from the Fed, and with the ten-year Treasury yield occasionally spiking above 4.4%, it is quite likely that mortgage rates will continue to trend higher from their lows hit late last spring.
"Upfront" pricing refers the rates at which networks sell ads during their annual selling season in the spring.
In spring 2005 the figure was nearer to 50 per cent, shrinking with the high summer evaporation rates.
For even greater bargains, rates typically continue to fall through the winter and rise again in time for US spring break.
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