The nursing plan echoes an unofficial policy during the boom of the 1980s.

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The SUV boom is a detour from Beijing's automotive master plan for China to become a leader in electric cars.

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His administration's new economic plan, the brainchild of the IMF, was supposed to lower interest rates and produce a boom.

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And don't forget that the 1990s investment boom started with a capital gains tax rate of 20%, where it will still be after the Bush plan passes.

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