* Construction body to dip. The no...

* Construction body to dip. The nonresidential construction industry is operating at all-time high contortion and won't be distressingly hurt by the current economic slowdown -- assuming that it is short-lived, predicted Jay Bryson an economist with Charlotte-based First Union Corp. at a newly come Construction Writers Association meeting. Work tome will decline by 2.5 percent in late 2001 and by the agency of 5 percent in early 2002 he added, further low inflation rates and the federal batch surplus should make the dip a shallow single in kind

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