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steam

[steem] / stim /


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It regained steam in the 1950s, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill to create the center in 1958.

From The Wall Street Journal

“After meaningful inventory gains last year, the recovery has lost steam,” says Danielle Hale, Realtor.com’s chief economist, in the company’s monthly housing report.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dishes clatter, steam bursts from large cooking pots and music is seeping through the bustling chatter of Russian pensioners, hunched over bowls of free meals in a Saint Petersburg soup kitchen.

From Barron's

Malaysia’s benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index is trading at levels not seen since 2018, as the country’s IPO market gathers steam.

From The Wall Street Journal

Work on the deal gathered steam around the time Musk won a key victory in November, when Tesla investors endorsed his moonshot $1 trillion pay package, the largest ever for a public-company boss.

From The Wall Street Journal