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• High-Tech Firms Can Expect Recovery but No '90s Replay, Experts Say.

  - 2004-01-19

  By Robert Weisman, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 19--The good times are starting to roll again in the chastened technology business. But so far the party is more restrained than the Internet carnival of the late 1990s, and not...

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• Economy Surges in Third Quarter.

  - 2003-12-24

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 24--The US economy grew at its fastest pace in nearly 20 years in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said yesterday, setting the stage for broad national recovery that some economists...

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• Consumer Confidence Sinks in September.

  - 2003-10-01

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 1--Growing worries about jobs helped drive consumer confidence to its lowest level since the United States went to war with Iraq, adding to jitters about whether the still-tenuous economic recovery can...

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• U.S. Economy Grows Briskly in Second Quarter; Eclipsing Earlier Estimates.

  - 2003-08-29

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 29--The U.S. economy, driven by solid consumer, business, and government spending, grew in the second ...uarter at its fastest pace in nine months, underscoring mounting evidence of an accelerating recovery....

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• July Marks Six Months of U.S. Job Losses.

  - 2003-08-02

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 2--The nation shed jobs for the sixth consecutive month in July as the stubbornly weak labor market continues to defy all expectations of a rebound. Even the dip...

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• Surprise Leap in Jobless Rate Spurs Fears Recovery May Be Losing Steam.

  - 2002-12-07

  By Kimberly Blanton, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 7--The nation's unemployment rate jumped unexpectedly to 6 percent in November, from 5.7 percent the prior month, signaling that the economy may be losing the momentum needed for a sustained recovery....

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