Everything I'm reading sug- gests some degree of modest recov- ery in 2003. Nobody's saying it's going to be fabulous, but most everything I read supports what we've been thinking: You run through a couple of years of consol-idation and then things start picking up again. Our outlook for the third quarter assumes that our close rates don't degrade. Actually, this quarter, our close rates got a little bit better, so we're at a stage where for the last couple of quarters we haven't been surprised on the downside with close rates. And again, that suggests stabilization. So we're assuming that we're in more of a stable environment and we're not going to see a downdraft in the economy or nervousness.
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