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cember, apparently as consumers bought cars to beat the tax law changes on interest deductions. Car sales overall for the year showed a respectable increase of 14.4 percent over 1985.
Most economic indicators showed improvement for the last two months of the year. Bank debits, electricity consumption, advertising lineage and non-agricultural employment all showed increases. Mr. Pearson observed that “these indicators all are evidence of continued strong growth of goods production in Virginia.”
Surprisingly, retail sales figures did not keep up with the general trend in increases over 1985 during the last several months. In Novemr
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