premise: We really have to come to grips with the fact that we're going to have a moderate and choppy pace of growth going into the second half of the year and into 2010." RAY STONE, ECONOMIST, STONE & MCCARTHY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY: "ISM over 50 for the second month in a row is good news, although <hypo> if it had kept on going up.
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "it would have been better"