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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The report is available at:</FONT></DIV>
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href="http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/SpecialTopics/MoscowGrowth.htm">http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/SpecialTopics/MoscowGrowth.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the core answer, according to my reading, is the
2,000 WSU and Schweitzer employees that live in Latah County.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Which makes me wonder why Moscow is spending so
much chasing the gods of Economic Development.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can hear the moaning now from the LEDC etc who
spend piles of taxpayer money chasing Growth.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What would happen if we just declared victory in
the economic development wars and scrapped all our economic development
effort?</FONT></DIV>
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