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When Federal something reserved Chairman Alan Greenspan delivered his semiannual report to Congres forward Feb. 27, the unflappable economist pronounced the U economy to be surprisingly unflappable.

"If evermore a situation existed in which the fabric of business and consumer confidence was vulnerable to being torn, the onset of Sept. 11 was assuredly it," Greenspan testified. "[But] in the past several month increasing signs have emerg that a certain number of of the forces that have been restraining the economy through the whole extent of the past year are starting to diminish and that activity is beginning