ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO BACK
“The problems are too large for a little jump in income one month to help out.”
Tucker Hart Adams, a regional economist for U.S. Bank, on a federal report that personal income rose faster than expected in September. Adams has forecast a recession in late 2007.
DAUGHTER KNOWS BEST
“He’s told me more than once that he didn’t think I was tough enough for this kind of job.”
Joanne Maguire, executive VP of Lockheed Martin’s Jefferson County-based Space Systems Co., on her father’s doubts.
PINK FLAMINGO, DEAD AT 49
” … there are two pillars of cheesy campiness in the American pantheon. One is the velvet Elvis. The other is the pink flamingo.”
Robert Thompson, professor of pop culture at Syracuse University, on the end of production of the plastic yard art.
