About a year ago, USG executives met with iconic American shareholder Warren Buf-fett. Over roast beef sandwiches and cherry cokes, they asked Buffett if he was seeing any "green shoots" of recovery in the US economy, which was at least just mid-term through a dramatic downturn that would be coined the "Great Recession" from a doubling US unemployment rate and plummeting consumer spending, and the weakest housing development since World War II.
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