It said customer demand for electrical goods was the "growth engine" of the High Street.

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The company already has a standalone product-search service that specializes in "hard" goods such as electronics and draws traffic from the main search engine.

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The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers, goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.

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Agricultural exports that used to be the engine of the economy have shriveled, and foreign currency to import goods is hard to come by.

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Further, thanks to planned investments by companies like Cisco, 3Com, Lucent, Microsoft, United Technologies, Motorola and Texas Instruments, if Congress approves normal trade with China, expect American and world markets to be flooded with ever higher-tech Chinese goods: broadband routers, telecommunications switches, semiconductors, servers, applications software and aerospace engine parts.

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