Katrina expected to slow down steady economic expansion

Thursday, September 1, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Surging energy prices and business disruptions from Hurricane Katrina, likely the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, threaten to slow what has been a steadily expanding economy.

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