Jerry Dipoto flexes management muscle by firing Mickey Hatcher
SportingNews.com
After six weeks of crossing his fingers each day hoping it would start, like a man praying his bucket of a car gets him to work every morning, the designer has started to rebuild this shiny, sputtering contraption. That decision was met with much ...

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Yankees try time machine
Minneapolis Star Tribune
New York is sputtering on the mound. Yankees starters entered the weekend with a 5.73 ERA. There was only one team with a higher ERA from its starting pitchers -- and that team plays half of its games at Target Field. The Yankees rotation was supposed ...

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TechStar Interview: Hermann Hauser
Huffington Post (blog)
He's a technology jack-of-all-trades who's contributed much to the often sputtering, industrial-turned-tech economy of England and Europe. I had met Hauser at a tech investing event in Oxford, England in 1999 and found him to be a very serious ...



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Job creation slows again in April; jobless rate dips
msnbc.com
... that hiring slowed in the US and it raises concerns, six months before Americans go to the polls to choose either President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger Mitt Romney as president, that the nation's job-creating machine is sputtering.

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Capital New York

Florence & the Machine plays Radio City Music Hall May 8
Capital New York
Rufus Wainwright (May 9, BAM) and Florence & the Machine (May 8, Radio City Music Hall) both also have a fondness for the dramatic flourish. In the case of the former, it almost sandbagged his career. After a string of promising early records, ...

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New York Daily News

Santigold and Rye Rye: Music from the edge goes pop
New York Daily News
The richly-produced “Disparate Youth” has an anthemic chorus, a sputtering new wave rock hook and, like many of the disc's tracks, a cool dub bass line. Likewise, “God From The Machine” mixes dub and new wave in way that's both clubby and catchy.

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A Rosy Aerospace Forecast In Skeptical Times
Hartford Courant
The plunge that hit the world's economy in the fall of 2008 ended, but for most industries, sputtering growth makes the recovery graph look like an "L", not a"V." In aerospace, analyst Richard Aboulafia told an audience of people in the industry in ...

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115000 jobs created in April, black unemployment rate falls to 13 percent
The Grio
... that hiring slowed in the US and it raises concerns, six months before Americans go to the polls to choose either President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger Mitt Romney as president, that the nation's job-creating machine is sputtering.

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Clearing wooded lot is not a job for the faint of heart
Chicago Tribune
With the economy sputtering along, it makes sense to be as frugal as possible. As crazy as this sounds, it may be worthwhile to get a few more estimates. Many contractors are not too busy, and you could get some competitive quotes.



Yahoo! Sports (blog)

Eulogy: Remembering the 2011-12 Chicago Blackhawks
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
We reached out to Brother Tallon yesterday to see if he was available and the only reply we got was a stack of qualifying offers on our fax machine. Is this thing broken? Did Dale just fax us a shot of his Johnson? Hard to tell on this machine lately.

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