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The rectangular areas are equal in size. Their vertical dimensions measure
                 
equal depths of decline in the help-wanted index over the first unbroken stream of
                 
consecutive monthly declines in the index. Each episode is directly comaparable to
                 
the other. When the declines reach the magnitude shown, a major stock-market
                 
bottom is at hand.
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* Data with permission of The Conference Board         Chart: 1 Jan 1960 through 30 Apr 2001
           
       
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