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But companies are racking up profits and now have built strong cash positions, and may be ready to hire again.

As you know, it is racking up record deficits now, and these are expected to total some $9 trillion over the next 10 years.

If she's an hourly employee, check her pay stubs to see if she really is racking up the overtime.

The wins have been racking up, and everyone on the Lakers roster has been performing at a higher level since the trade.

So, dad started racking up all of these patents and gaining a reputation as a blind genius, rocket scientist, inventor.

It's like, you know, racking up our credit cards on entry fees and gas.

All states, except tiny Vermont, now require their annual operating budgets to be balanced, which limits the racking up of debt over time.

Americans, too, like a good gas, racking up 835 minutes (though some of these are incoming minutes, which are paid for by the subscriber).

But it has been racking up huge losses, and such Internet powerhouses as Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. are moving to enter its business.

Risk-averse investors should stick with companies racking up at least $500 million in annual sales.

Doubling up allowed me to run long on Saturday, take Sunday off, and still get the same 90 to 120 miles my competitors were racking up.

Your car will immediately begin flipping and you' ll start racking up a score for the street that you started the Showtime on.

Yeah, but a word to the wise: spend carefully. You don't want to rack up credit card debt for the sake of racking up frequent flyer miles!

Other hackers have built apps that automatically call expensive, premium-rate phone numbers, racking up big bills for users.

Social networking is booming, and big contenders like MySpace and Facebook are racking up millions upon millions of users.

They then proceeded to earn their way back to solvency and are now (mostly) racking up healthy profits.

The federal government is racking up even larger borrowings, which its creditors may rightly fear will never be repaid.

Criminals are also stealing U. S. intellectual property, racking up $188 million in violations in 2010, according to the White House.

Then I started racking up Muslim conflicts. Bosnia, Kosovo, Russia and Uzbekistan added to the tally.

The stock market celebrated a short-term rate cut, racking up big weekly gains, but in the currency markets, the dollar declined sharply.

If you haven't begun saving anything for the downpayment, and are racking up credit card debt, there's a gap.

The heavy weighting towards financials helps when Chinese banks are racking up huge profits.

Meanwhile, in India and China, the rich are racking up huge gains, in both wealth and populations.

Racking up air miles as first lady is not quite the same as negotiating a treaty.

When South Koreans are not racking up overtime, they're collecting bandwidth fees.

Insurers are another big culprit in racking up unnecessary expenses.

Despite our hard work, the opposing team was racking up points faster than we could count.

His contracts dried up, and to stay afloat, he used loans and credit cards, racking up $85, 000 in debt.

He died in a bar, collapsing from a heart attack, after racking up an $866. 00 alcohol bill.

We agree that after a decade of racking up deficits and debt, we finally need to get our fiscal house in order.

Now, Apple just closed its best year in business, racking up sales of $583 million.

Shiseido, a Japanese cosmetics company, has been racking up 30 per cent Chinese sales growth.

While still not complete, I have made significant headway on racking up rails in my github fork of Rails.

Banks say they are already racking up significant costs.

Over the past year the Chinese stock market has been racking up one record after another.

Her brothers sent over 2, 000 texts and also downloaded videos, sometimes racking up $2, 000 in data charges.

In 2009, the economy barely paused for breath, racking up 8. 7 per cent growth.

Well, yes, we can't keep racking up ever larger debts, can we?

And their Activia yogurt exploded onto the US market last year, racking up an unheard-of $130 million in first-year sales.

when it comes to reining in the vast deficits he is now racking up

i just want to keep racking up victories against the best guys they got out there

anne needs to stop swiping her credit cards ; she is racking up a huge debt

After racking up an impressive 16, 660 points while playing the game "Berzerk, " Jeff toppled over and died of a heart attack. ( Gamespy)