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frames- Meanwhile , the National Association of Purchasing Management said 0 its latest survey indicated that [ARG1 the manufacturing economy] [rel contracted] [ARGM-TMP in October] [ARGM-TMP for the sixth consecutive month] .
- As * expected *-1 , a national purchasing managers ' report indicated 0 [ARG1 the nation 's manufacturing sector] continues *-2 to [rel contract] [ARG2-MNR modestly] .
- The move by the financial information and services subsidiary of Citicorp is a `` response to changing conditions in [ARG1 the retail securities industry] , which *T*-1 has been [rel contracting] '' [ARGM-TMP since October 1987 's stock market crash] , the executive added 0 *T*-2 .
- A reading of less than 50 % indicates [ARG1 an economy] that *T*-1 is [ARGM-TMP generally] [rel contracting] while a reading above 50 % indicates an economy that *T*-2 's expanding .
- What scientists have known *T*-2 since the late 1970s is that there is [ARG1 a hole] in the layer over Antarctica that *T*-1 expands or [rel contracts] [ARGM-TMP from year to year] .
- `` As [ARG1 businesses] [rel contract] or depart , the number of employees who *T*-1 might use retail services shrinks , '' says *T*-2 Edward A. Friedman , senior vice president of Helmsley Spear Inc .