There is no other factor on the immediate horizon that could harm the industry's resurging private work sector more than the alarming climb in rates.

Optimism among American executives appears to be resurging, according to the latest quarterly survey by the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, a business information company.

"Just as resurging growth tends to subdue inflation in its early stage, so too does it restrain interest rates," he said, adding that improved corporate cash flow reduces borrowing needs.

She crept away into the corner behind the curtain, and there on her couch in the semidarkness she lay with strained heart, and a resurging, unconquerable tumult in her mind.

In "Phoenix Reviviscens" (Resurging Phoenix), he gives interesting notices of ancient Cistercian authors in England and contemporary ones of Spain.

And among resurging Eastern and Midwestern cities, some urban-affairs experts say, Boston seems to be coming back the best, helped by huge public projects but also by being the right place at the right time in the strong economy.