As a result, while the market gets high marks for its resilience and ability to shrug off the negative economic reports, it has also made almost no further progress over the last six weeks.

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We note low inventories, low real interest rates, rational consumer resilience, high levels of bank cash (since the write-downs are generally non-cash accounting entries), small business flexibility and reasonable output gains apart from housing, autos and finance.

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That resilience comes at a high cost in lives and environmental destruction.

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High-tech advances in improving the resilience, yield and herbicide resistance of mainstay crops have generated significant results along with a set of widely-licensed gene patents that are used in most soybean and corn crops grown in the U.S. today.

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It is anticipated that the resilience of the Bequia Community High School will be emulated by a number of these schools in the near future, which will be enhanced by that school's drive to expand the Sandwatch programme to as many schools as are willing to participate.

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This market has shown impressive resilience, but with skeptics now jumping in, this is a high-risk time for new buying.

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We expect 1.7% growth in real personal consumption expenditures in the four quarters ending September 2008 even under our soft-landing scenario, below the 2% four-quarter low in the 2001 recession (see graph and further discussion in the attachment.) In recent years, we predicted and explained the resilience in U.S. consumption growth in terms of job prospects and the high actual household savings rate.

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