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In percentage terms the 20 million new jobs created since January of 1993 represent a growth of 18 percent; in the 1960s and 1980s, the work force grew by greater percentage rates over seven years--25 percent and 22 percent, respectively.
What she did not know until 1997, she says, is that her parents grew up Jewish and converted to Catholicism only sometime around the outbreak of the war.
The story notes that the state data dovetails with the Commerce Department report issued Friday, indicating that the nation's gross domestic product grew 6.1 percent in the fourth quarter.
Between 1987 and 1997, it grew at a rate of 6.6 percent annually.
One of the things I always find interesting about L.A., where I grew up waiting desperately for the moment I could get out, is how it found its "there" (kind of the way Miami did).