Hot is the New Normal

Holmes: The new normal: Hot MetroWest Daily News 1, the new "normal" will average .5 degrees higher than the old "normal." Higher temperatures aren't the only new normal. Floods are more widespread and more severe. Droughts are deeper and last longer. Pakistan and Australia were devastated by floods ...

UK should get used to a new economic norm Telegraph.co.uk The chief executives of the large supermarkets may not be alone in being unprepared to accept the "new normal" of the British economy. Wading through a tide of gloomy data in recent weeks, economists have been busy slashing their expectations for how...

A message from the Strauss family Enterprise-Record "I want to tell you about what I call 'a new normal' and how it applies to you. The 2011 Pleasant Valley High School Class Motto goes like this: it comes not back again; wisely improve the present — it is yours. Finally, go forth to meet the shadowy ...

Life After Cancer Patch.com Each cancer survivor experiences a new normal and often finds life is different but still incredibly wonderful, and it's sometimes even better than before because they no longer take for granted the simple things in life. ...

Is this a recovery? Cincinnati.com Will there be a “new normal?” Stevie: The economy will be what it will be – it's always going to evolve, it's not going to be what it was before. I think we're going through a period of structural change. A lot of lost jobs aren't coming back. ...

Political ads take aim at Barletta Standard Speaker "This is the new normal," Thomas Baldino, a professor of political science at Wilkes University, said. Under older rules, voters seldom saw political ads 19 months before an election, Baldino said. A decision by the US Supreme Court last year in the ...

Early next week, Phoenix will turn hotter and drier than it was before. AZ Central.com That's not a weather forecast or a gloomy new climate-change prediction. It's a matter of the record books. On Aug. 1, the National Weather Service will turn the page in its book and begin using new numbers to describe normal weather conditions - the ...

UK growth slump 'to last a decade,' says top economist Telegraph.co.uk Photo: PA By Emma Rowley Ahead of the announcement of Britain's key gross domestic product (GDP) figure on Tuesday, Erik Britton, of Fathom Consulting and formerly a Bank of England economist, said the UK would have to become used to a "new normal" ...

Sunday newspaper round-up: UK Banks, UK economy, Lloyds ShareCast "We are definitely talking about the new normal," Mr Britton said. "It is very hard to pin the weakness of growth on austerity. Government spending has not fallen yet." Time for stimulus spending from the government? Actually, for Mr Britton, ...

Rate tightening is not over, yet Livemint The new normal will still leave inflation at a level far above the comparative number for most other major emerging markets. But that is a problem that cannot be solved without active help from the government in New Delhi, through a new reforms drive ...

Political backdrop worsens FICC slump Financial News However, analysts believe the sharp drop in FICC trading in the second quarter was exacerbated by political, economic and market uncertainty, and does not represent a new normal. William Tanona, a banks analyst at UBS in New York, said: “We have seen a ...

Families divided: Immigration attorney talks about reform Twin Cities Planet The Twin Cities Daily Planet held several community conversations with immigrants and refugees enrolled at the Minnesota Literacy Council as part of our New Normal series. In North Minneapolis, we had a packed room of Minnesotans and immigrants from ...

Guest opinion: Sirti transition to Innovate Washington honors Momentum visionaries The Spokesman Review Public and private sector leaders are adjusting strategy to recover more competitively as the economy establishes a new normal. Consistent with the dictates of the new economic environment and with the demand to retain the US innovation edge, ...

Special needs educator meets unlikely fate OCRegister They have a new normal now, but Art says they “are determined to live as normal a life as possible. We travel when possible, visit our children, go to the movies. Doing these things allows us to keep living life.” And so, the woman who gave a voice to ...

Slumping housing market forces some to 'make do' rather than 'build new' Patriot-News A larger question might be: What will the so-called “new normal” look like in terms of building volume? David insisted that bubble-inflated building levels of the mid-2000s should not be used as a realistic benchmark. “We're never going back there,” ...

SELWESKI: US running out of ammo in battle to save economy Royal Oak Daily Tribune Many economists say the current pace in sales of autos and appliances — two staples of the manufacturing and retail sectors — may be the new normal. People may hold onto their cars longer, they may forego buying that fancy refrigerator they'd been ...

End of the ride?: Cracks appear in China's economic model The Express Tribune “The problem is not really what took place in 2009 and (China's) initial response to the global financial crisis, the problem is that in 2010 and continuing on into this year, it became the new normal,” said Chovanec. “It became the new growth model, ...

Phoenix is hotter and drier, a new normal for the Valley Tucson Citizen by Shaun McKinnon on Jul. 24, 2011, under Arizona Republic News That's not a weather forecast or a gloomy new climate-change prediction. It's a matter of the record books. On Aug. 1, the National Weather Service will turn the page in its book and begin ...

A gruesome massacre Daily Pioneer This is 2011 and terrorism is the new normal today. No country can afford to have gun-toting lunatics or poorly secured Government buildings. The Americans learned from the Oklahoma bombing by passing effective legislation, further strengthened after ...