From the anticipate of last year's...

From the anticipate of last year's trends in construction spending for modern industrial plants and warehouses, common would never know that the nation's manufacturing sector was effectively in a recession through every part of the second half of 2000 Despite weaker industrial production, declining orders and fading capacity utilization, spending upon manufacturing buildings soared last year.

After recording sole modest net growth between 1996 and 1998 -- and plunging by the agency of 13.8 percent during 1999 -- total industrial construction spending increased according to 16.5 percent between 1999 and 2000

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