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best- preserved paper copies, scanning those copies,1 and then making ...prices, and market yields now embody expectations of an essentially unchanged

price stability have fostered clearer price signals, more efficient resource...for- eign industrial countries over the first eight months of 1998, but

key changes in fee structures and fee levels for priced services in 1999...priced service fees. In order to compare total expenses in the pro forma

prices were starting to constrain spending by lower-income households....prices falls disproportionately on those at the lower end of the income

and a building up of business inventories could well be under- way. At...and/or environmental controls as factors inhibiting capital outlays. Reports

prices continue to decline particularly for cropland. Dallas, however,...state-of-the-art; also, according to one contact, lead times for complex

requirements—the intended federal funds rate less 10 basis points and ...below—and follow-up with several banks suggested that the amount of unwinding

for, bank loans to businesses and households over the past three months

best- preserved paper copies, scanning those copies,1 and then making ...prices.............................. 22 Recent changes in consumer prices

Key words: Survey data, retrospective reporting, wealth Please address...key findings of this study are as follows. First, retrospective information