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A WEAKENING U.S. dollar and falling oil prices are among the factors that should help the industrial construction market gain strength in 2007.

Eli Lustgarten, senior vice president of Cleveland-based Longbow Research and principal of ESL Consultants in St. Louis told members of the National Truck Equipment Association last fall that real gross domestic product growth remains strong, capital spending continues to strengthen, manufacturing output is improving, inflation remains under control and corporate profits are strong.

"The industrial sector will still

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