No matter what the reason, family loans are becoming more common as the economy sputters along.

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Games suffered from crippling sputters and stalls, thanks to the XO's small memory capacity.

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Even as the U.S. economy sputters, Ford recently posted its highest quarterly income growth rate in a decade.

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As gun violence legislation sputters in Congress, the idea of requiring mandatory gun liability insurance seems to be gaining more traction.

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If the economy sputters as a result of the spending cuts, as some economists predict, deficit reduction will look even worse.

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Economic growth, even as it sputters in some nations, is (eventually) inevitable.

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But as the U.S. economy sputters and companies transfer their IT needs from the desktop to virtualized data centers and to the Web, one computer giant is moving its enterprise products in a new direction: slimmer and cheaper.

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But while the cost of action will be great, I can assure you that the cost of inaction will be far greater, for it could result in an economy that sputters along for not months or years, but perhaps a decade.

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Meanwhile, the global economy sputters.

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