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Table 2 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices at Selected Branches and Agencies of Foreign Banks in the United States

compared with average monthly gains of 285,000 since last fall. The civilian...compared with a rise of about 3 percent in 1984, the increase in hourly

price stability and maximum employment and to maintaining the strength

prices, less than prices. or about the same as prices? Over the fast five...prices, less than prices. or about the same 8s prices? .-I[ vy 11. UP

prices, as measured by the fixed-weight price index for gross domestic...price index for finished goods rose 0.3 percent in August, compared with

best estimate was that production and consumption were at about the same...and, if steel, automobiles, and building continued to advance, the coming

prices that had occurred and that the economy might be well on the road...prices were more or less per manent, and that individuals therefore were

for practical reasons--the System's options for exchanging its holdings...prices have been increasing less rapidly than earlier but consumer prices

for] central bank action. The one caveat I would put to that question ...price index, [the rise] is obvious. Their argument is that the export