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The two charts show a strange phenomenon in people’s spending. From the first one, we can see that the trend of real hourly wages was unhappy from 1995 to 2002. although there was a little rise from 1996 to 1997, the hourly wages never stopped falling between 1997 and 2002. But strangely, the credit development was not affected. Except for two years, that is from 1999 to 2000, the credit development was generally on the rise. Why did people spend more and more money while their wages became less and less? I think the only reason was that they believed things would turn for the better soon, so they were not worried about overspending with their credit card. p154 The table compares the C C companys sales of four major products of office furniture in 2001 and 2002. They are desks, filing cabinets, tables and chairs. The sales of chairs in 2002 showed the greatest increase of all. It reached $144 000. That was an 80% increase over the figure in 2001. Desks showed an encouraging 25% increase in sales, from $40 000 to $50 000 in 2002. Sales of riling cabinets jumped 50% up from $220 000 in 2001 to $330 000 in 2002. Tables also sold well. The overall increase in office furniture in 2002 was very exciting. p24 The chart shows a survey result about the hour the teenagers spend per week on the different media such as Internet, TV, radio telephone and books or magazines in their spare time. Clearly, the teenagers like surfing the net very much and they usually spend 16.7 hours per week on-line. Next to this, they would prefer to watch TV, 13.6 hours per week being spent on that. Interestingly, in a week, they only spend about 6 hours reading books or magazines. And the amount of time they spend in listening to radio or using telephone is just in between. p40 The chart clearly shows that American employers are most concerned with the candidates working experience, communication skills and enthusiasm. 85 percent of the employers are seeking qualifications of working experienc