“The consumer needs sustainable income support, so employment reports, including next

“The consumer needs sustainable income support, so employment reports, including next Friday’s, will be key signals of just how robust consumption will be over the rest of 2010.”

Nigel Gault, an economist at IHS Global Insight, on how employment will be key to supporting income growth in coming months.

“It was just an exceptional, quiet, peaceful experience.”

Jonathan Trappe, 36, of Raleigh, N.C., discussing with London television about his crossing the English Channel carried by a bundle of helium balloons.

“Seeing a tennis woman of Venus [Williams’] caliber dolled up in lace and resembling more of a figure skater will hopefully revive the industry at a time when French lace makers are going out of business one after the other.”

Isabelle Tartier, director of Paris-based Frank Sorbier, one of the few fashion houses that still uses lace, after Williams’ match at the French Open tennis tournament.