They all take time. It's a labor-intensive, time-consuming process.

We should see some small increases in retail sales over coming months, but without a decent pickup in the labor market and incomes, we won't see much of an improvement.

The board instructed us to contact the various interested parties comprised of the labor organizations, county retiree organizations and others and solicit from them ideas as to what can be done to ensure the viability of these ancillary benefits.

We've started to see a gradual improvement in the labor market, and that will slowly feed through to consumer spending and boost services more widely.

The trend is still for healthy productivity growth between 2% and 2.5%, and unit labor costs are expected to only slowly rise over the coming year.

When he was away (from Albuquerque) he was doing some pretty heavy-duty stuff on international labor issues. He understands the community picture and the bigger picture.