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As it stands the U. S. government spends roughly $4 billion a year on energy research and development.

Pressure has been growing for the U. S. Treasury to label China a currency manipulator in a report due out on April 15.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U. S. consumer may be hurting, but a bounce back is right around the corner.

Economists at Wells Fargo said the impact was more likely to be seen in U. S. trade data for April.

Best Buy Co. , the largest U. S. electronics chain, said it had sold out of its limited iPhone 4 inventory.

The U. S. Navy has decided to upgrade the system in a spiral plan that includes four blocks.

The tagline "Chevy Runs Deep" seems to be getting some buzz in the U. S. , where the brand overall is 14. 4% ahead of 2010 in sales.

As the U. S. leaders were in Baghdad, bombs in the capital killed at least four people, including a policeman, and wounded several others.

GDP per head, a mere $4, 000, is not even one-tenth that of the U. S. and ranks around 100th place in the world.

A report showing record U. S. exports in April eased some concerns about a stalled economic recovery, which had been weighing on the market.

The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission is probing Sokol, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

He said the U. S. government has himself admitted the last six years, Mexican police seized 104 000 weapons, 85% were sold by U. S. weapons.

Victims of human trafficking can sometimes be granted a special visa that allows them to stay in the U. S. for up to four years.

Some of the products tested had the U. S. Department of Agriculture organic seal, and none of those contained 1, 4-dioxane.

He did not mention that a run of bad inflation figures (up to 4. 4% in February) has made a fiscal U-turn trickier.

Which of the more than 40, 000 online job boards now operating in the U. S. are most likely to help you land the position you want?

Also, the U. K. government reported better-than-expected manufacturing data and higher economic growth in the fourth quarter.

In addition to the U of O, Lane Community College, which enrolls over 40, 000 students, is just a few miles away.

U. S. analysts said the estimated $4 billion in illicit opium accounted for more than a third of Afghanistan's gross domestic product.

It said the number of U. S. job postings on the Internet rose to 4. 7 million on Dec. 1, up from 2. 7 million a year earlier.

The U. S. government routinely surveys retail meat and poultry for four types of drug-resistant bacteria, but S. aureus is not among them.

With rates held low by the U. S. Federal Reserve, financing rates remain at some of the cheapest on record.

The Wall Street Journal reported in April that Russian and Chinese spies had penetrated the U. S. electric grid.

It's been 4 years since I moved to the U. S. from Japan, and I feel my vision is changing little by little.

Your next baby will be three to four times as likely to die in the last months of his first year of life.

Thursday night's level is roughly four times the maximum annual exposure recommended by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Importantly, the surplus is below the 4% threshold proposed by the U. S. as the baseline for assessing currency misalignment.

So far, the yuan has risen 2. 4% against the U. S. dollar since June 19 when China said it would allow more flexibility in the currency.

Since April, investors placing bets that the U. S. stock market will go down have been noticeably absent.

That's at least four times greater than exposure standards set by U. S. national air quality standards.

In April of this year, the U. S. State Department announced that to punish Cambodia, it was canceling a shipment of 200 U.

In early April, U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner delayed publication of a twice-yearly report on international currency practices.

The U. S. factory sector shrank in April, but at a slower pace, suggesting some stability for manufacturers and the broader economy.

In the other direction, the U. S. trade deficit continued to weigh on growth, as imports grew by 17. 4% while exports rose only 5. 0%.

The bank paid $780 million in a deal to avoid prosecution and eventually released the names of more than 4, 000 U. S. clients.

Japan's share of the U. S. auto market fell from 39. 4% a year ago to 38. 8% in the first three months of the year.

U. S. farms produce nearly 430 million tons of plant waste every year. Like the ulmo tree, plant waste is mostly made up of cellulose.

Thursday, in an interview with the Associated Press, Mr. Obama said Mr. Putin still has a lot of influence in Russia. The U.

Bank of China limits the amount of yuan that can be converted by a U. S. -based individual customer to up to $4, 000 a day.

Analysts say the long-delayed white version of the white iPhone 4 has been more in demand in Asia than in the U. S.

And annual sales of less than 10 million, implying only about 4% turnover of the U. S. vehicle fleet, can't last forever.

The employment outlook figure for companies in the U. S. was a 'cautiously optimistic' 4%, the report said.

'We bought about 30 iPhone 4 handsets from the United Kingdom and the U. S. , and they were sold out quickly within a few hours, ' Lau said.

Yet U. S. growth is still higher than the 8% average in the Middle East and Latin America; Europe's wealth growth was an anemic 4. 8%.

A Time magazine article from April 1986 quoted U. S. President Ronald Reagan as calling him "the mad dog of the Middle East. "

He says it could take 4 to 5 years for the U. S. to get back to a "more normal unemployment rate of 5% or 6%" .

With 4, 000 flights a day between the U. S. and Mexico, "it's not worth the social disruption it would cause. "

Calls in the U. S. are all 5 cents per minute (2 cents if you sign up to pay a $4 monthly fee).

The U. S. trade deficit got nearly 4 percent worse in December as a reviving economy boosted demand for imported goods.

In April, Mr. Beers and other S&P officials met with Mr. Geithner and others to press for details of the U. S. 's plans to cut deficits.

Iran accused the United States of being behind the Feb. 4 kidnapping of the diplomat, Jalal Sharafi, who returned to Tehran on Tuesday. U.

The 22nd Amendment to the U. S. Constitution prohibits an American president from serving more than two full four-year terms in office.

In the past five years, enforcement of the U. S. law has led to about $4 billion in penalties against corporations.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration suspended the customs clearance of 107 food and pharmaceutical products imported from China in April.

Nevertheless, despite the increase, wages in Chinese manufacturing in 2008 were still only about 4 per cent of those in the U. S.

The first orders of business: Cut costs by at least $500 million, shutter 800 stores in the U. S. , lay off more than 4, 000 employees.

But this won't be enough for some agencies, which deem cuts of $4 trillion necessary for the U. S. to maintain its AAA rating.

The World Bank has a ranking of countries measured by the "ease of doing business, " and the U. S. is No. 4.

A box that used to be quoted for $4 to $5 in the U. S. before was quoted at $3 now.

Charles Kao, who was born in Shanghai, China, and has both U. K. and U. S. citizenships, received half the total prize money of . 4 million.

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Chrysler was given $4 billion in U. S. loans after nearly running out of money.

The U. S. government this year offered $2. 4 billion in grants to develop green auto technology, some of which is going to batteries.

President Barack Obama is expected to sign a $4. 5 billion bill just passed by the U. S. Congress to settle these long-standing claims.

If prospective home buyers see mortgage rates under 4% it may touch off a housing revival. The U.

On April 1, USAID and the U. S. Department of State jointly awarded a grant to the Kashf Foundation, a Pakistan-based microfinance group.

Roughly 4. 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, and that number is expected to triple by 2050 as the U. S. population ages.

The U. S. Department of Labor on Friday said the May jobless rate was 8. 9 percent, the highest level since 1983.

By 2030, 400 million people -- more than today's entire U. S. population -- are expected to move from China's villages to its cities.

Shares in the group dropped 1. 4% in London, making it the biggest faller among U. K. banks.

Now, the social networking site is the most visited Web site in the U. S. , and Forbes pegs Zuckerberg's worth at around $4 billion.

The U. S. ~ed off some of its gold holdings at roughly 4 times that price.

Today per capita GDP in China is 19% that of the U. S. , compared with 4% when economic reform began just over 30 years ago.

In two years, Microsoft's Bing has doubled its share of the U. S. search market, from 7. 2 percent to 14. 4 percent.

The Obama administration also wants to show its ability to add jobs during a time of 9. 4% U. S. unemployment.

In contrast, the iPhone 4 went on sale in the U. S. , France, Britain, Germany and Japan in June and July.

The U. S. currency also lost 1. 4% against the Australian dollar and was even weaker against the Brazilian real, falling 2. 7%.

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In just the last seven years, jobs supported by U. S. exports (goods and services) have risen by 4 million, to a total of 11 million.

The U. S. Congress has just approved a historic high $400 million for the Peace Corps budget.

The U. S. jobless rate is 9. 4 percent, and is expected to remain higher than usual for some time.

In the 2000s, as the government reported in April, the firms cut their work forces in the U. S. as they expanded them abroad.

FP's experts assess the probability of a U. S. -China war in the next decade to be low (2. 4 on the 1 to 10 scale).

The country lost jobs overall in July, due in large part to cuts at the U. S. Census Bureau.

He noted that so far 4, 427 U. S. troops have been killed in the war, and more than 34, 000 have been injured, some of them very seriously.

Chrysler has been loaned $4 billion in emergency funds by the U. S. government and has asked for another $5 billion to operate.

The last distribution was before the U. S. invasion of Iraq four years ago.

The U. S. came in sixth, trailing Italy, Spain and Chile, with a 6. 4% share.

RIM's PlayBook was delayed until April and still isn't being offered for sale by the two biggest U. S. wireless carriers.

Each prize consists of a medal, a personal diploma and a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (1. 4 million U. S. dollars).

More than 720, 000 international students came to the U. S. in 2010, a 4. 7 percent increase from a year earlier.

Households also have yanked roughly $70 billion out of U. S. equity funds this year, though the stock market has gained 4%.

The latest evidence: Swiss banking giant UBS has agreed to hand over details on more than 4, 000 accounts to the U. S. government.

On Monday, a suspected U. S. drone attack killed four militants allegedly with ties to Al Qaeda and Pakistan's Taliban in North Waziristan.

As the mujahideen converged on Kabul in April 1992, Najibullah was forced to seek refuge in a U. N. compound.

U. S. factory output fell 0. 4 percent in June, the most in a year, a Fed report showed July 15.

The 5. 4-magnitude earthquake hit near the border with Myanmar, the U. S. Geological Survey said.

The largest of these major retailers, Wal-Mart, seemed to be everywhere, with 4, 100 U. S. stores and 3, 100 stores abroad.

When Germany renewed unrestricted submarine warfare, the U. S. entered World War I in April 1917.

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The U. S. economy had a net gain of just 54, 000 jobs in May, the smallest increase since September.

The U. N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Thursday its monthly Food Price Index jumped 3. 4 percent from December to January.

Despite debate over illegal immigration, the U. S. population will likely rise from 310 million to about 420 million by mid century.

For the year, the U. S. dollar is down about 4. 2% against the Singapore dollar.

To create a drama about U. S. Marshals, writer Jennifer Johnson says she thought about her 4-year-old daughter.

Separate reports on Wednesday showed a sharp slowdown in the vast U. S. services sector and less hiring by private companies in April.

More than half of the 4 million U. S. children diagnosed with attention-deficit disorders are being treated with stimulant drugs.

Even at today's near-record prices, U. S. households today spend less than 4% of their disposable income at the pump, vs. over 6% in 1980.

On April 12, I named Mickey Kantor secretary of commerce and his able deputy, Charlene Barshefsky, the new U. S. trade representative.

Increased hiring is seen as critical to getting a consumer-led recovery under way. The U. S. unemployment rate was 9. 4 percent in July.

Indeed, a recent report suggests that the U. S. alone will spend $4 billion by 2010 on unmanned systems.

At 384 million as of 2009 , China already has twice as many Internet users as the U. S. and Japan combined .

In April 1971, China invited the U. S. table-tennis team to visit in what Time magazine called "the ping heard round the world. "

A $6. 4-billion U. S. arms package for Taiwan announced in January would shore up the island's self-defense, but has enraged China.

The system produces intelligence information collected by the U-2, RQ-4 Global Hawk, MQ-9 Reaper and MQ-1 Predator aircraft.

His campaign on behalf of veteran Gurkhas, the Nepalese soldiers who serve Britain, forced a government u-turn in April.

The U. S. economy added just 54, 000 jobs last month, and data earlier this week showed consumer spending was flat in May from April.

The U. S. Commerce Department says prices for imports from China rose at a 4. 1% annual rate during the first half of 2007.

The U. S. government will likely forgive the $19. 4 billion already loaned to the Michigan automaker.

President Bush said he will send about 4, 500 troops to Afghanistan by February, but with other U.

Meanwhile, a roadside bomb exploded near a U. S military vehicle on Saturday killing four American soldiers.

International relief groups - mostly U. N. agencies - have issued an appeal for $462 million in aid to the Palestinians this year.

In early April, Japanese authorities arrested a U. S. sailor on charges of killing and robbing a taxi driver near Tokyo.

An Illinois state senator a mere four years ago, he won election to the U.

The Working Group on Economics and Finance convened April 18 under the U. S. -Pakistan Strategic Dialogue.

Without them, the U. S. economy's average 2. 4% growth rate since mid-2009 would have been sliced in half.

In 2002 the United States against steel to levy a 3-year import tax, which the EU lost up to 2. 4 billion U. S. dollars.

Weeks of negotiations have failed to yield a so-called "grand bargain" to trim U. S. budget deficits by $4 trillion over 10 years.

County and state fairs in the U. S. often include agricultural exhibits by 4-H members.

A factory owner surnamed Wang says Wenzhou's niche is cheap products, like his newest $4 item: a Steve Jobs lighter-combination-USB drive.

Born in Brandon, Vermont, on April 23, 1813, Douglas was a U. S. representative, senator, and presidential candidate.

Said during an August 4, 2008, speech that the U. S. should sell 70 million barrels of oil from the reserve for less expensive crude oil.

Another would send about 34, 000 U. S. troops and seek additional forces from U. S. allies to make up the difference.

The U. S. economy probably grew at a four percent rate in 2004 .

U. S. GDP rose 2. 4 percent in the first quarter from a year before.

The U. S. Apellate Court in New York had set a 4pm Sunday deadline for Supreme Court intervention.

Hindus account for approximately 0. 4 percent of the U. S. adult population, according to Pew's Religious Landscape Survey.

They are co-founders of Kingston Technology, the 79th-largest private company in the U. S. Annual sales run over $4 billion.

The numbers in the U. S. Labour Department's report, released Friday, were far worse than the 524, 000 that economists expected.

In the U. S. , nearly 3% of kids now takes a stimulant like Ritalin; the figure is now 2. 4% in Australia and 2. 5% in Israel.

Four years ago, a request for proposal was sent to U. S. -based Lockheed Martin and Boeing, EADS and Ilyushin of Tashkent.

South Korea's won posted its biggest daily loss in 10 months Thursday, falling 2. 4% against the U. S. dollar.

The U. S. Labor Department says 24, 000 fewer Americans filed initial jobless claims last week than the previous week .

In April of 2010, militants using a car bomb and firing weapons attacked the U. S. consulate in Peshawar.

His first solo single, "Fill Me In, " grabbed the U. K. 's #1 spot in April 2000.

After rising fairly steadily through most of April, U. S. markets joined the global stock move lower.

Twitter's site has gone from an estimated 4 million visitors in the U. S to 20 million, and nearly double that worldwide.

Defense officials here say their top preference to replace the aging F-4's remains the Raptor despite the funding cut by U. S. senators.

The U. S. ranked 16th, one spot ahead of France but four behind Germany.

Today, the U. S. Army D-rations include three 4-ounce chocolate bars.

Store sales fell 4% in the U. S. during the quarter.

We expect the U. S. rate to be revised down to 0. 4%.

It has reduced the amount of credit it extends and it is closing about 400 of its U. S. branches.

PEMGroup was seized by U. S. officials in April 2009 following a Wall Street Journal article raising questions about Mr. Pang and the firm.

In 2007, before the financial crisis sent global trade into a tailspin, 16. 4% of U. S. imports came from China. .

Even with a shrinking global lead, U. S. researchers published 46, 000 more scientific articles in 2008 than they did six years earlier.

By comparison, the U. S. Standard & Poor's Financials Index has gained about 4. 7 percent.

U. S. banks began to lower the prime rate they charge their best customers to 4. 0 percent from 4. 5 percent after the Fed's announcement.

The iPhone 4 went on sale in China about three months after its introduction in the U. S. and several other countries in late June.

Kinect is launching November 4th in the U. S and worldwide in time for the holidays. We'll update when we hear the price.

The average price of gasoline in the U. S. last week, according to the Energy Information Administration, was $4. 11.

In addition to 'Avatar, ' this weekend included the release of 'Sherlock Holmes, ' which brought in $65. 4 million in the U. S.

The 135th and last flight of the U. S. space transportation system, or STS, comes 30 years after the first flight in April 1981.

China's one-year certificate of deposit rate is 4. 14 percent, well above the U. S. federal funds target rate of 2. 25 percent.

The Federal Reserve said U. S. factories were using just 67. 4% of their manufacturing capacity in February, the lowest on record.

Her new novel, titled "Mara and Dann" , was been published in the U. S in January 1999 and in the U. K. in April 1999.

Many economists concur that a 4% unemployment rate reflects a stable economy. The U.

The U. S. dollar index is up roughly 4% since mid-October.

Bonds: The price on the benchmark 10-year U. S. Treasury fell, pushing the yield up to 3. 40% from 3. 39% late Thursday.

The U. K. has about 4 million surveillance cameras in use.

In comparison, the U. S. military budget request for 2008 is $481. 4 billion, not including war requests.

The most recent U. S. dietary guidelines, released earlier this year, recommend adults consume 4, 700 milligrams of potassium a day.

FDIC loans for the U. S. 7932 to provide deposit guarantee, the lender's total assets of 13. 4 trillion.

Stocks turned lower shortly after the opening after a survey showed U. S. consumer confidence at its weakest point in 26 years in April.

For the past 4 years, he and his son have been selling souvenirs, mostly to U. S. troops.

A new Jerusalem Post poll shows that only 4 percent of Israeli Jews see U. S. President Barack Obama's policies as pro-Israel.

Maher says that was based on flights over the crippled nuclear plant by a U. S. Air Force (RQ-4) Global Hawk remotely piloted plane.

Sodium laureth sulfate may be contaminated with 1, 4-dioxane, a carcinogen. The U.

The company expects to triple its U. S. employee base to roughly 4, 000 by 2010, the CEO has said.

By contrast, before the current crisis struck, the U. S. spent about 0. 4% of GDP on retraining and benefits, according to the OECD.

More than 4, 000 U. S. Marines began an attack against Taliban holdouts in Afghanistan's Helmand province early Thursday morning.

Last month, the U. S. Commerce Department imposed countervailing duties on the steel pipes ranging from 10. 4% to 15. 8%.

The U. S. economy lost jobs last month for the first time in more than four years.

This would be up from a 4% threshold imposed on U. S. banks after the 2009 stress tests.

Line 4 defines the pattern for a valid U. S. telephone number.

They surveyed a nationally representative sample of almost 40, 000 U. S. adults who lived with a child under 18.

Estimates for the U. S. oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico range between 94 and 184 million gallons (360 million and 700 million liters).

At midday Monday, London and Frankfurt share prices were up more than 4 percent while French stocks climbed more than 8 percent. U.

U. S. unemployment dipped below 9 percent last month, as private employers added the most jobs since April.

A U. K. index of growth in services businesses unexpectedly rose in October to the highest level in four months.

In the U. K. , by contrast, inflation is running at a 4. 5% clip, despite economic growth of just 1. 6%.

And GM, which has received $15. 4 billion in U. S. government loans, says it is likely to file for bankruptcy protection.

The U. N. noted that global meat production is projected to more than double from 229 million tons in 1999 to 465 million tons by 2050.

If you live in the U. S. , the due date to file your tax return isn't until next April.

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U. S. swimmers had great success at the Athens Olympics four years ago.

If U. S. and E. U. grow at 4. 5% and 2% respectively this year, then China will move back to a growing trade balance for 2010.

Still, they allocated $2. 40 in capital spending in the U. S. for every $1 spent abroad.

The U. S. dollar rose 1. 8% against the Canadian dollar and 2. 4% against the South African rand.

Phoenix TV: According to MOFCOM statistics, China's investment in the U. S. soared by 81. 4% year on year.

The Iraq war is now the second-longest in modern U. S. history, with almost 4, 000 Americans dead.

U. S. public schools experienced leisure sports development stage 4.

That's not exactly pocket change, but it is just 0. 4% of the $10 trillion of tradable U. S. government bonds available.

In 1999, the WTO authorized the U. S. to impose $191. 4 million of trade sanctions on the EU.

Fort Hood is the U. S. Army's largest U. S. post, with about 40, 000 troops.

The certificate says he was born August 4, 1961, in the Pacific U. S. state of Hawaii.

The eurozone as a whole posted a 1. 1% rise in real GDP (quarterly rate), beating the U. S. (0. 6%) and Japan (0. 4%).

U. S. gross domestic product grew at a meager 0. 4% annual rate in the first quarter and a 1. 3% rate in the second quarter.

The U. S. Pavilion was visited by 7. 5 million people, nearly all of them Chinese. That's more than 40, 000 people a day.

The 10-year U. S. Treasury note's yield brushed 4 percent last week, foreshadowing a possible roadblock for stock bulls.

Today, we're thrilled to introduce the 40 Regional Finalists for this year's U. S. Doodle 4 Google contest.

There are more than 4, 000 colleges and universities in the U. S. , according to the Census Bureau.

China's trade surplus with the U. S. remained high in October at $20. 1 billion, up 11. 4% year-to-year.

U. S. consumer prices actually fell 0. 1% in April from the previous month, the Labor Department reported.

Today the big chip makers like Intel employ only 0. 4 percent of the U. S. workforce, down from a peak of 0. 6 percent in 2000.

The key chains were sold at Wal-Mart stores across the U. S. between April 2005 and June 2008 for between $0. 50 and $6. 00.

An already slowing South Korea saw its stock market tumble 4. 4% on Monday in the wake of disappointing U. S. data.

That figure is about 4% more than the U. S. , which the IEA said burned 2. 17 billion tons of oil equivalent.

The first additional U. S. brigade, numbering between 3, 500 and four-thousand troops, is scheduled to arrive in January.

Four percent fewer passengers traveled on U. S. carriers in July, while the average price to fly one mile fell 18%, the ATA said.

GM's roughly 54, 000 UAW-represented U. S. factory workers are expected to vote on the agreement next week.

The Netherlands: just 4. 5 percent. Many economists concur that a 4 percent unemployment rate reflects a stable economy. The U.

According to incomplete statistics, military and civilian war casualties were more than 9000 million people, U. S. $ 4 trillion drain.

Dixons Retail Plc, the U. K. 's biggest consumer- electronics retailer, retreated 4. 6 percent to 23. 22 pence.

The U. S. is forecast to grow just 1. 4% next year, a pace that could push the 9. 1% jobless rate higher.

Newmont Mining Corp. rose 4. 6 percent as commodities prices gained on a U. S. dollar decline.

That last incident raised the number of U. S. military fatalities in Iraq to 4, 000.

Now the iPhone 4 is set to go on sale in China just 93 days (three months, one day) after becoming available to U. S. consumers.

The U. S. bank has been free to sell the stake, which is worth around $6. 4 billion, since Wednesday.

By contrast, investors rushed to purchase 10-year U. S. Treasury notes yielding under 2. 5% and 30-year bonds yielding less than 4%.

U. S. water-treatment units have provided 4. 8 million liters of safe drinking water, the embassy said.

The percentage of film jobs in the U. S. that are located in California has shrunk from 40% in 1997 to 37. 4% in 2008.

A U. S. Army soldier from the 10th Mountain Division surveys a road in the Tangi Valley, Afghanistan, on Sept.

To that end, he announced that a U. S. -Latin America Private Sector Dialogue will be held April 18-20 in Cartagena, Colombia.

A mere 4 percent of U. S. adults own a tablet computer (i. e. , the iPad), and about the same number own an e-book reader, according to Pew.

In the U. S. , Toyota sold about 4, 800 of the Lexus GX 460 in the first quarter.

U. S. refineries operated at 81. 4 percent of capacity, the lowest since October 2005 when output was cut by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

U. S. sales of biodiesel fuels, blended or used in pure form, totaled 459 million gallons (1. 7 million kiloliters) for 2009.

In the U. S. , we spend 3 to 4 times as many hours shopping.

At the end of the half-year mark, Hyundai posted an all-time high U. S. market share of 4. 2% compared to 3. 1% at the end of June 2008.

More experts predict that car ownership in China will surpass the U. S. in 30 years, reaching 240 million or more.

When Enron filed bankruptcy (the largest in U. S. history), 4, 000 employees lost their jobs.

FedEx commenced its operations in April 1973 in Memphis, U. S.

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Standard & Poor's 500 Index futures increased 0. 4 percent before a report on U. S. manufacturing.

U. S. Coast Guard and other agencies respond to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th, 2010.

Obama's $447-billion program is intended to boost growth in the sluggish U. S. economy and to reduce the 9. 1-percent unemployment rate.

In January, the Fed projected U. S. economic output would grow by as much as 3. 9% this year.

Among advanced economy forecasts, growth in the U. S. is expected to reach 2. 7% in 2010 and 2. 4% next year.