31.   Services in Massachusetts, especially business services, had the biggest job gains last month.

32.   Signs of slackening retail sales and slowing job gains are already beginning to appear.

33.   Statistically, that shows up as an extra-big job gain.

34.   Such perception came when a U.S. employment report Friday last week showed two months of stronger-than-expected job gains.

35.   The authors also indicated they were uncomfortable with such early pronouncements about job gains and losses resulting from NAFTA.

36.   The anticipated job gains have not materialized, at least not yet.

37.   The biggest job gains for women came for wives of high-wage men, not those at the bottom of the economic heap.

38.   The dollar rose to a five-week high against the deutsche mark after news of the job gain.

39.   The Federal Reserve, by contrast, probably will leave U.S. rates unchanged after two months of stronger-than-expected job gains, analysts said.

40.   The Finance statistics conflict with Employment Development Department figures showing more moderate job gains this year.