At the same time, privately-held retail stores had been growing since last summer, but the rate of their revenue growth (as a percentage) flat-lined and began to decrease month to month.

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The suicide rate then rose gradually through the 1960s and 1970s, but in the 1980s it began to decrease, continuing to decline steadily until 2000. (Anyone recall what happened to the economy in 2000?) From 2000 to 2007, the last year for which the researchers had data, the suicide rate was on the rise.

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