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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (384774)	4/3/2003 10:59:03 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

tigger gets desperate when he thinks no one is listening to him...comes from too many days spent in rubber rooms.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (384774)	4/3/2003 11:10:37 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

It’s tempting to believe that rising efficiency will rescue the economy. But the surge reflects more bad news, such as mass layoffs, than good msnbc.com In the Great Depression some industries experienced rapid productivity gains, as economic historian Michael A. Bernstein of the University of California, San Diego, has pointed out. Food marketing was one. Small grocery stores gave way to new supermarkets; there were 300 in 1935 and almost 5,000 by 1939. Refrigerator sales boomed—from about 800,000 in 1930 to 2.3 million in 1937. Electrification raised light-bulb sales sharply. But these and other gains couldn’t overcome otherwise dismal economic conditions.