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Beyer said that while he hopes President Bush is right in his predictions of a short, mild recession, he is not as confident.

“From my business perspective and the people that I talk to in the Northern Virginia business community, I think people are significantly less optimistic,” said Beyer who owns a Volvo dealership in Vienna. “That may be just because we’ve had the boom for the past 10 years. It may be a little longer for us to come out of it.”

Beyer said he supports Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s approach to the budget crisis.

“If you look at what Virginia’s doing. The first thing is to do what Gov. Wilder has done: balance the

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