ATTACK ON AMERICA

摘要

By the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, it was apparent that the world had changed. The worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history had left thousands missing and presumed dead, billions of dollars in damages and economic uncertainties that were all but confirmed when the stock market reopened the following week to huge losses.Add to that the massive layoffs that were announced in the travel and hospitality industries, and anxiety about U.S. military involvement overseas, and a bleak picture begins to emerge for a U.S. economy that was already slowing before the attacks. So what are the future prospects for the U.S. aggregates industry in the face of the uncertain national economic picture?