(NO TRANSCRIPTS) However,in a country where the love of gold dates back centuries, jewelry shop owners say they will wait patiently for sales to pick up.

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Mr. MASINO: Some are--where they're just actually--the mother was picked up off a roof and she was dropped here, and then they went back to pick up the children and the helicopter took them here, and they all went different ways.

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And, they say, when the economy does pick back up, those folks will want back in.

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When he put the oxygen back, they'd pick up where they left off.

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