| 31. | Durable goods industries in the US are approximately three times more cyclical than nondurable-goods industries.
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| 32. | Among intermediate goods, nondurable factory materials jumped 2 percent, after a 1.1 December advance.
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| 33. | Total nondurable goods were up 1.6 percent in March, the biggest increase in two years.
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| 34. | But spending on nondurable goods, items not expected to last three years, was revised down slightly.
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| 35. | Nondurable goods are used up within a year ( food, clothing, medicine . . . ).
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| 36. | While durable goods can usually be rented as well as bought, nondurable goods generally are not rented.
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| 37. | Generally the life span of nondurable goods may vary from a few minutes to up to three years.
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| 38. | Wholesale inventories rose 0.1 percent in May, reflecting a slight increase in stocks of nondurable goods.
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| 39. | In the best positions now, he said, are health care, military contracting and consumer nondurable products.
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| 40. | Sales of nondurable goods such as food and fuel fell 0.1 percent for the second straight month.
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